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Tradition and Morbidity

Rebels for a day, and virtual renegades in a schmaltzy spectacle of piety and panegyrics in the next day’s headlines, the dissenting Congress leaders retreated without the humiliation of a recantation. Some mercy.

Dhoni Chic

The cricket story began in Ranchi but the cultural phenomenon became Pan-Indian

Captain India

It is the second most important job in the country and only the few able to withstand its pressures leave a legacy

We Are All Calibans Today

The culture of Americanisation

What’s the Deal?

It is in India’s interest to heed America’s desire for a larger trade pact

Who’s Afraid of Pax Americana?

The shape of the world tomorrow hinges on the strategic choices the US makes today

Mimic Nation

India’s ambivalent relationship with technology and business has made us perpetual consumers to US producers

An Idea Between the Covers

America was the New Jerusalem. It is still the Promised Land. That is not a complete picture but it is how the America we know began. From Henry James’ wilderness with ‘nothing’ in it, the US quickly grew to lead the world, economically, militarily and intellectually. A big country, a lot of things have happened in its brief timeline, and everything has mattered. Below is a list of 10 books, fiction and non-fiction, that span most of the country’s history as the ‘United’ States of America and explain how it was made—and continues to be remade

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