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Swapan Dasgupta

Swapan Dasgupta is India's foremost conservative columnist. He is the author of Awakening Bharat Mata

The Idea of India
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The Idea of India

The points of friction lay in defining Indian identity or grasping the so-called idea of India

13 August 2021
Past Parallels
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Past Parallels

Ever since Covid-19 forced a rejig of our lives, the past has often seemed another country

30 July 2021
Afghanistan: Left to God and Anarchy
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Afghanistan: Left to God

And a mood of understandable triumphalism in the Taliban

16 July 2021
Indira Gandhi’s Emergency
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Indira Gandhi’s Emergency

The impact has been so profound that it has become a shorthand term for almost anything that is viewed as undemocratic

02 July 2021
Curzonian Foreign Policy
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Curzonian Foreign Policy

Curzon’s strategic vision is slowly finding a place in India’s foreign policy objectives

18 June 2021
The Idea of Central Vista
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The Idea of Central Vista

In line with an India that is on the cusp of becoming a Great Power

04 June 2021
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The Ghost in Politics

The next time, BJP in West Bengal will have an army of activists who imbibed the lessons of failure

21 May 2021
A Political Transformation
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A Political Transformation

For the first time, the BJP is on the cusp of creating history in West Bengal

12 March 2021
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Where Politics Is Passion

The trick in an election is to balance the national appeal with local faces. Language matters, and often doesn’t matter

26 February 2021
The Mother of All Elections
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The Mother of All Elections

A fierce do-or-die confrontation between the doughty Mamata Banerjee and the BJP

12 February 2021

Authors

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals

Brahma Chellaney

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground

MJ Akbar

MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns

Ram Madhav

Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

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