A literary festival on the palace grounds gives Thiruvananthapuram a new cultural elan
14 February 2018Tracing the taste of Lucknow to the ancestral history of a dutiful daughter
17 January 2018A land scam puts the head of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, India’s largest and oldest, in a bad spot. How long can he resist a fall from grace?
11 January 2018Smell the beetle and play
21 December 2017Voters maintain an enigmatic silence as the political endgame gets closer in Modi’s citadel
07 December 2017Of 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP, the SP and the BSP are likely to take 30 seats each and Congress 20
30 November 2017Mark Tully, who reported it for the world from ground zero, watched some leaders asking the police to stay away and Sangh volunteers breaching police cordons with ease. Then they began to climb up the domes of the mosque and started hacking away at the mortar
30 November 2017LK Advani was the original apostle of hardcore Hindutva and the man who mobilised India for the sake of Rama
30 November 2017Overseas studies show a low-calorie diet helps in reversing diabetes. India too needs to fund domestic research to combat its biggest health scourge
02 November 2017Brahma 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 is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
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
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