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In memory of Indian martyrs of the Great Wars

Among the Brahmins

It is the tension between cultural memory and current political anxieties about change that gives this riverside saga by Aatish Taseer the kind of literary urgency we hardly see in the writings on India

In Defence of Killing a Tigress

The hypocrisy of rich Indians telling the poor why they must die

Mumbai Notebook

Judicial overreach and mercury overshoot

Indraprastha

The new crowd at five-star hotels and the old problem of Diwali gifts

Art of the Possible

Politics, the perils of democratic systems and the role of institutions

The Measure of a Statue

The bronze incarnation of the Iron Man is necessary iconography for the reign of Modi

My Indian Hall of Fame

No matter how long the list, there’s always a film I miss

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