A Tight, Long Hug

My Choice of Best of 2019 Books: Shashi Tharoor, Author and MP

Arun Mohan Sukumar | William Dalrymple | Paul Zacharia | Vandana Singh-Lal

The World Is What it Is

Economy and the environment, gender and justice—the big questions of the day

Best of 2019: My Choice

Pratap Bhanu Mehta | David Davidar | William Dalrymple | Aatish Taseer | Shashi Tharoor | Tishani Doshi | Mani Shankar Aiyar | Srinath Raghavan | Arshia Sattar | KR Meera | Keerthik Sasidharan | Sudeep Paul

Public Intellectuals: Pratap Bhanu Mehta, 52, Shashi Tharoor, 63, Swapan Dasgupta, 63, Ramachandra Guha, 61

The Commentariat

The Ascetic versus the Urbane and the Swing Vote of Gods

Cavils without Context

Tharoor doesn’t even try to get into Modi’s mind

Shashi Tharoor, Scholar Politician

The Hindu Way

The Hindu Way of Writing

Both scholarly and simple in his argument, Shashi Tharoor celebrates Indian syncretism

Books: Highlights of 2018

Shashi Tharoor, TM Krishna, Daniel Ellsberg, Yasser Usman, Husain Haqqani, Mary Beard, Zadie Smith, Snigdha Poonam, Salman Khurshid, John Zubrzycki, Sheila Dikshit, Roxane Gay, Barkha Dutt, Mohammed Hanif and others