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Essays

Let us read the Tea Leaves

Times have changed since Mao told Richard Nixon (and Deng Xiaoping repeated to Rajiv), “Business? Discuss with the premier. Here we discuss philosophical matters”

Soulmates of the East

The Modi-Abe bromance is built on a grand Asian project

Is it the end of the Cricket Nation?

India’s Test humiliation in England tells a bleak story of the future of a great Indian obsession

Silence of the Civilised

The beheading of James Foley and the sinister truth about ISIS

The Rise of Ideological Jihadists

And why India should be really worried

CURSE OF THE GAME

Cricket and Pakistan: When military dictators and politicians thought they could win the people through a surrogate triumph on a playing field

Where the poppies blow between the crosses, row on row

When Indian soldiers defended what God abandoned and risked their life in the faraway fields of the First World War a century ago

Being civil about development

The IB report on NGOs brings out the battle between the state and nature

Death of the beautiful game

It was the World Cup where the myth of Brazilian football came to an inglorious finale

The end of Britain?

An impending referendum in Scotland could bring about the end of a 307-year-old union—and the most successful nation state in history

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