Fraying at the Edges

The Day of the Global South

India is reshaping the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s priorities on security, counterterrorism and connectivity

Together at the Heavenly Crossing

The future in a huddle and three smiling faces

The Resistance

As India-US ties cool, a huddle in Tianjin, carpooling with Putin, and a shinkansen ride in Japan signal Modi’s bold response to Trump’s tariff offensive

Game Changer

The ban on real money games may have dealt a blow to a $3.8 billion industry but it also gives hope to a rising esports business

Rewriting the India Story

Modi launches the blueprint for national resurgence emphasising self-reliance and wider global cooperation

The Incident of the Wine Bottles

The Limits of Allegory

There are some who say ‘Jana Gana Mana' is sung in the raga Alhaiya Bilaval; there are others who believe it is in raga Gaud Sarang. It is neither but has some of their characteristics. This is the kind of freedom I have taken as a given

The Fugitive’s Tryst with Destiny

As I travelled around India by retracing the steps of my great-uncle who landed here 80 years before I did, the irony struck me: here I was, an Italian in India by choice, chasing the ghost of a dear relative who had been brought to Bombay in chains in December 1940 by the British

The Post-Imperial Hangover

Britain did not take easily to its diminished status after 1947. Britons loved the men that India had made of them. India held mythic status in the minds of upper-class Brits. Nothing quite like that has appeared to take India’s place