Former editor of The Sunday Times and author of, most recently, Do I Make Myself Clear?: Why Writing Well Matters

One of the world's most influential public intellectuals discusses the state of the world with Open

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam’s most daring heretic, argues for a war on Islamist missionaries

The year of the most feared batsman

An Indian in the ocean of notions

Two angry Tamil heroes caught between damnation and salvation 

It’s easier to be creative as a bowler in the relatively unstructured and ramshackle world of Pakistani cricket than as a batsman

Compared with Trump’s hideous and incurable flaws, Hillary’s perceived faults seem far from indigestible to a voter with a sturdy stomach

It is a fight between the inscrutably cynical Hillary Clinton and the swashbuckling nativist Donald Trump. The unpopular may defeat the popular in the end

Is it the end of sporting Brahminism as well?

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…