The lamentation of Romila Thapar, our most venerable historian, is understandable: philistines have come to dominate the political space. The age of the philosopher king is gone; today it is all about spin and sound bites.
General VK Singh has perhaps been India’s most controversial Army chief since Independence. Excerpts from an interview with him
Commentators warming up to Modi forget that his decade in power has seen the logic of the 2002 violence pursued by other means