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Vinay Lal

Vinay Lal is a cultural critic and Professor of History at University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including The Colonial State and Forms of Knowledge: The British in India and Insurgency and the Artist: The Art of the Freedom Struggle in India

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Virtual as Actual

Memoirs of a life lived online

23 December 2022
Essay
Truth On Trial

On March 18, 1922, Gandhi pleaded guilty and won a moral victory

18 March 2022
Books
The Right Rebels

Pramod Kapoor restores the Royal Indian Navy Mutiny to its proper place in the history of the freedom struggle

11 March 2022
Cover Stories
Singing the Nation

We can begin to have a better conception of the extraordinary place of Lata in the life of the nation when we imagine how she not only embodied the nation but sang the nation

11 February 2022
Essay
The Culture of Caste

The sociology of violence in popular cinema

26 November 2021
Essay
The Enigma of Udham Singh

Jallianwala Bagh and the solitude of revenge

05 November 2021
An Objective History
Books
An Objective History

Vidya Dehejia’s chosen artefacts relive the past, speak to the present, and occasionally portend the future

16 July 2021
Misreading the Mahatma
Essay
Misreading the Mahatma

Gandhi was not enough for Naipaul. Why he was wrong

04 June 2021
Is Reason Infected?
Cover Stories
Is Reason Infected?

Science and civil society in the year of the plague

26 March 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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