India

Bigger than the Sum of his Imperfections

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

He did a far better job of gaining knowledge of the larger sweep of history than any of his contemporaries. The confidence with which we condemn Nehru exposes the narrowness of our certainties more than it detracts from his achievements

VIRAL ALERT

Aanchal Bansal

India is at high risk of Ebola. How prepared are we?

Death at the Doorstep

Madhavankutty Pillai

It is hard to see how India can escape Ebola

Haunted by the Ghost of Osama

Tufail Ahmad

The latest jihadist threat to India is real because the new al Qaeda is a branch of Pakistan’s military

My Experiments with Toilet Etiquette

Mihir Srivastava

With globalisation making us adopt the world’s best practices, could bathroom behaviour be far behind?

For an India of Equal Liberty

Martha C Nussbaum

Time to strike a balance between justice and prosperity

In the Line of Fire

Mihir Srivastava

We travel through villages along the LoC in Jammu & Kashmir to chronicle lives scarred by the never ending hostilities between India and Pakistan

A Venetian lesson for the Lion of Hindustan

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

What the world’s longest lasting republic can teach the leader of the world’s largest democracy

Time for transformation

PR Ramesh

Candidate Modi, like Chief Minister Modi, has given India enough indications that he has a formula for revival

An Open Republic

arindam

Patrick French • Shashi Tharoor • Shekhar Gupta • Priyamvada Gopal • Sunanda K Datta-Ray • Ananya Vajpeyi • Jug Suraiya • Tishani Doshi • Bennett Voyles • and others