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Is Mall the New Mandir?

A meditation on Black Friday

Calm After the Rage of Evil

‘Europe would need a common enemy to unite and the only one available is Islam.’ Is André Malraux’s prophecy coming true?

After Bihar: Return of the Satrapies

Strong regional parties will continue to hold sway against the BJP

How We Valued Value

Wealth is a neglected domain in our scriptures because they were written by brahmins and that is also why artha is intertwined with dharma

The Novel and Its Discontents

Reading Marlon James’ Booker winning A Brief History of Seven Killings, a fireball of a novel, and wondering: What’s it that makes fiction great?

Subhas Chandra Bose: Stalin’s Prisoner?

Was Netaji sent to the Gulag? The Subhas Chandra Bose files might reveal many hidden truths

The Last Mughal Renaissance

The works produced by the last of the Mughal painters in Delhi for British patrons are an extraordinary fusion of English and Indian artistic sensibilities

A Legacy of the Gods

Our cavalier attitude to truth imperils institutions

Delight of the Eye

Nainsukh broke free from the formality of Indian court art to explore the quirks of human reality, stripping courtly conventions down to create miniatures full of living and breathing individuals

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