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S Prasannarajan

Desperately seeking the sword of Hindutva

Akash Kapur: A Sceptic’s Faith

Akash Kapur’s nonfiction book tells of the quest for utopia in Auroville. He speaks to Nandini Nair about writing history without judgement and the impossibility of an ideal world

The Pursuits of the Past

TCA Raghavan

A problematic passage to the national soul

Why is Bollywood like this only?

Amit Khanna

A deep dive into the structure of Hindi cinema

An Objective History

Vinay Lal

Vidya Dehejia’s chosen artefacts relive the past, speak to the present, and occasionally portend the future

The Limits of Leadership

Shashi Tharoor

Is the role of the individual in history overestimated?

The Sangh and Modernity

Ram Madhav

RSS is an idea that is still evolving

What’s Past is Prologue

Shashi Tharoor

Listen to the whispers of history and be warned

The Tragedy of a Few Good Men

Ullekh NP

Malcolm Gladwell’s new book examines one of the great moral challenges of World War II and the price of different actions

The Amritsar Massacre

VN Datta

An account of the carnage that shook the country in 1919, and wounded its consciousness

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The Banality of Comparative Evil

Akash Kapur: A Sceptic’s Faith

The Pursuits of the Past

Why is Bollywood like this only?

An Objective History

The Limits of Leadership

The Sangh and Modernity

What’s Past is Prologue

The Tragedy of a Few Good Men

The Amritsar Massacre

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