India

The ‘Ignorance’ of India

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Surveys become talking points and trending topics on social media. Perhaps that is their only purpose, for it is hard to imagine what such findings are useful for

India Enchanted

Shreya Ray

Lord Hastings’ 1814 journey from Calcutta to Punjab with painter Sita Ram is a discovery of Colonial India through lives mundane and magical

The Other War

Shruti Vyas

When will world leaders act with alacrity in the battle against global warming?

Modi Makes a Decisive Move in the UK

Harsh V Pant

Modi has made the relationship more forward looking

Flight to Capital

Siddharth Singh

Being rich in India in the age of Thomas Piketty

Scatalogically Speaking

Tishani Doshi

A month in Japan, where the bathroom experience is beyond superlative, makes one wonder how Japan and India could have diverged in such a dramatic fashion when it comes to potty culture

How India’s Unofficial Blockade is Affecting Post-Earthquake Nepal

Naomi Mihara

A nation struggling to recover from one crisis has been hit by another

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s Memoir: Dialogue is Destiny

Mani Shankar Aiyar

Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri’s magisterial memoir further underlines the truth that the consolidation of India’s own nationhood depends crucially on our being able to look on Pakistan as a friend and neighbour, not as a threat and an enemy