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Sri Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi: Their Pristine Example

Arun Shourie

What the mystic experience of Sri Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi tells us in the age of wealthy gods and godmen

Hampi: Return to a Forgotten Empire

In Hampi lies a larger tragedy of south India

Let’s Speak in English

Beyond the political uses of Hindi is the inevitable language of the future

The Ideological Threat of Islam

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Islam’s most daring heretic, argues for a war on Islamist missionaries

Warren Hastings ‘Loved India a Little More Than His Own Country’

On the 70th anniversary of India’s independence, let’s redeem Warren Hastings from the worst trial of history

Battle for the Headscarf

One woman’s defiance of Turkey’s secularist dress code

Gods and Demons

When a culture fails to see things in their true colours  

Kissed and Damned in Kerala

What’s it like being a woman in a society where the moral police are on the prowl?

Viceroy’s House: Ghost House of History

What’s Wrong with Gurinder Chadha’s Middlebrow Partition Thriller?

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