Pakistan

India Before Itself

Madhav Khosla

India’s ancient and medieval past may be rich in experiences and personalities but its challenges belong very much to the modern world

Elsewhere in History

Devapriya Roy

A Bangladeshi writer discovers the East

Is Kashmir Losing India?

S Prasannarajan

Today, alienation is a necessary identity for the stone-throwing, Book-bound revolutionary. Home is not India any longer; it is an idea delivered by an angry god

Pakistan: Bowling Nation

Tunku Varadarajan

It’s easier to be creative as a bowler in the relatively unstructured and ramshackle world of Pakistani cricket than as a batsman

Hate Wave in the Valley: Return to the Stone Age

Kumar Anshuman in Srinagar

in the wake of a killing

The Myth of Hindu Terror

Rupa Subramanya

What the data says: India faces bigger threats from Jihad and Maoism

Faisal Devji: Time Traveller

Open

His scholarship helps us understand Islam better and grasp the intricacies of Jihadist thought

Daddy in the Shadows

Bunny Suraiya

A gripping novel where the son gets to know himself better through his raucous uncles and absent father

The Art of Denial

Madhavankutty Pillai

How to complicate the complicated

Fear and Faith in Dhaka

Ullekh NP in Dhaka

Caught between the call of jihad and the politics of poverty, Sheikh Hasina is battling alone for Bangladesh. India and the West had better take notice