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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

Speak, History
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Speak, History

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

13 August 2020
When History Stands Still
Essay
When History Stands Still

Consolations from the trauma-ridden past of India

17 April 2020
The Backstory of our Anxieties
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
An Imran Khan election rally
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
The Anatomy of Power
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The Anatomy of Power

Srinath Raghavan’s new book is a richly textured study of America’s footprints on South Asia

20 June 2018
Who’s Afraid of Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
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Who’s Afraid of Muhammad Ali Jinnah?

Let him not divide India further

10 May 2018
The Paradoxical State
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The Paradoxical State

Cracking the nuclear mystery of Pakistan

25 April 2018
Jadunath Sarkar (Left) and Rabindranath Tagore
Essay
Temptations of a Greater India

The legacy of an ambitious project in history

08 March 2018

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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