TCA Raghavan, Author at Open The Magazine

TCA Raghavan

TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle

Cover Stories

The Pursuits of the Past

A problematic passage to the national soul

13 August 2021

Essays

The Sense of an Ending

The optics of America’s pullout from an unwinnable war in Afghanistan

30 April 2021

Cover Stories

Convenient Histories

Pandemic or not, the past is prologue

25 December 2020

Columns

A Requiem for My Boss

Jaswant Singh (1938-2020)

02 October 2020

Cover Story

Speak, History

Returning to the broken fragments of the 1990s to understand the China-driven churn of the present

13 August 2020

Essay

When History Stands Still

Consolations from the trauma-ridden past of India

17 April 2020

Essays

The Backstory of our Anxieties

We are still living in the changes authored by the years 1979 and 1989

27 December 2019

Open Decade 2009-2019

Jadunath Sarkar, GS Sardesai and Raghubir Sinh: Three Lives in History

Jadunath Sarkar, GS Sardesai and Raghubir Sinh offer lessons in dissent in our own time of churn

19 July 2019

A depiction of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre

New Year 2019 Issue

1919: A Portrait

One hundred years after the year of reckoning

20 December 2018

Battle for Pakistan 2018

The Bloody Biography of Change

By all accounts, India is not a factor in the election. Is this because the consensus on India is so strong across Pakistan’s political divides that no party gets extra mileage by wrapping the flag around itself?

19 July 2018