Essays

The Antique Lands

Srinath Raghavan

A majestic narrative on the Silk Roads retells global history where West and Central Asia form the axis of power play. The historian as a captivating storyteller is less convincing when he turns prophetic. The roads may not rise again

Donald Trump, From A to Z

Tunku Varadarajan

An alphabetical portrait of the frontrunner in the race for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination

The Familiar Faces of Ajanta

William Dalrymple

The eternity of the sensuous and the spiritual in the finest picture gallery of a civilisation

Nothing Medieval About Them

Jason Burke

Are Islamic terrorists, executioners of the digital age, ahead of the curve?

Root for the Outlier

A Damodaran

In search of an alternative management paradigm

Burke and India

Richard Bourke

Edmund Burke, the 18th century English philosopher-statesman, believed that Indians were systematically exploited by the East India Company, whose abuse of power led to the creation of one of the most degenerate species of government that the civilised world had ever seen