‘The return of the Taliban will have grave consequences for India,’ says C Christine Fair

Afghanistan: Left to God

And a mood of understandable triumphalism in the Taliban

The Sense of an Ending

The optics of America’s pullout from an unwinnable war in Afghanistan

The Passion of Manzoor Pashteen

The 25-year-old Pashtun tribal leader is charismatic and defiant, much to the anguish of the powerful Pakistani army

City of Contrasts

Creating Kabul from the constellation of powerful stories it holds within

The Backstory of our Anxieties

We are still living in the changes authored by the years 1979 and 1989

Kandahar 1999: Story of a Hijacking

The first-person narrative recalls the drama that kept India awake for seven fateful nights

Reimagining the India Map

Facing up to the Forbidden

The novelist Nemat Sadat tells Bhavya Dore about the travails of coming out as a gay man in Afghanistan

War and Pieces

Steve Coll goes deeper into the debacle in Afghanistan