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Essays

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

Will Modi play the great game?

The last outpost of the Raj still survives in South Block

Modi and the uses of dissent

The danger ahead: The idea that this Prime Minister can do no wrong may create its own McCarthyism

The sacred and the profane

Let the spiritual and the sustainable meet to save the Ganga

A requiem for our first car

With the demise of the Ambassador goes the last symbol of the Nehruvian Age

The Queen of Khap

Sudesh Choudhary has broken a tradition spanning more than six centuries. Do men still set the limits of her power?

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