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Speaking Stones

Ranjit Hoskote

Why the vast spread of Neolithic cultures across South Asia goes unnoticed

Sultans and Rajas

The Hindu-Muslim rivalries for power in the Deccan were not examples of communal acrimony

Open Diary

Winston Churchill and the growing one-sidedness of academic discourse

Manuscripts Don’t Burn

The medieval glory of Timbuktu in golden letters

Hopefully in Pakistan

Portrait of a country beyond the straitjacket

The Old New Hanoi

The rustic charms and modern cool of Vietnam

Speak, Memory

Where the political is the personal

Cricket: The Nationalist Game

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

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