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Cricket: The Nationalist Game

Shashi Tharoor

From the colonial gentleman to the prince to the commoner, the evolutionary saga of Indian cricket

Open Diary

The Viceregal Lodge in Shimla and the dismal institute it houses

Syama Prasad Mookerjee: Out of Sight

Syama Prasad Mookerjee doesn’t get the scholarly attention he deserves

The Jewel in the Crown

The Amrapali Museum in Jaipur is a rare celebration of Indian jewellery and craftsmanship

Warrior for Swaraj

Inspired fiction on the mind of Shivaji

Maya Jasanoff: The World Is What It Was

Maya Jasanoff uses Joseph Conrad as a guide to globalisation in the modern world. The historian in conversation with Nandini Nair

Why Should a Hindu Be Good?

Divinity of the soul and politics of the body

Open Diary

For warmer ties with Australia and open minds on period cinema

The Aura of Excess

The other side of luxury

Mother’s Kitchen

Tracing the taste of Lucknow to the ancestral history of a dutiful daughter

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