The Long Shadow of Masood Azhar

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Black Noise

S Prasannarajan

Reading Don DeLillo in the time of a pandemic

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Covid-19 Vaccine

Virendra Kapoor

Tamp down hope of an early normalisation

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India Connection

Anil Dharker

Both the US president-elect and the vice president-elect have an India link

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Ahmed Patel (1949-2020): Power Behind the Power

PR Ramesh

Patel was a lone ranger in a party known for its groupism. With his death, Sonia Gandhi has lost the golden bridge linking her family to the party. And it can get very lonely up there in a castle of melting wax

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In Defence of Livelihood

Madhavankutty Pillai

And the case against any further lockdowns, no matter how tempting they seem

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Diego Maradona (1960-2020): God’s Player

Lhendup G Bhutia

A flawed genius whose flaws only add to his immortality

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The Message from Seemanchal

MJ Akbar

Congress’ last Muslim bastion in the north has collapsed

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History without Humility

Keerthik Sasidharan

Intellectuals and the Indian past

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The Rebuke and After

Makarand R Paranjape

Vivekananda and the Himalayan connection—Part V

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After Patel, Who?

Jayanta Ghosal

Could Kamal Nath or P Chidambaram take over the role?

Cover Story

The Unfinished Agenda of Masood Azhar

Rahul Pandita

Twenty years after his release from an Indian jail, the fountainhead of radical Islamism continues to send messengers of death to India