Stalin

Following PM’s Template: Fadnavis to Restrict Public Access to Mantralaya

Short Post

The idea is to reduce footfalls at Mantralaya as also to rein in middle-men, who tend to approach ministers for favours like transfers of officials or to bag contracts

Borderland or Bloodland?

Sudeep Paul

Geography as the determinant of Ukraine’s violent history

Stalin as Metaphor

Ullekh NP

CP Surendran marshals powerful characters to link the old and the new

Martin Amis: ‘It is Very Satisfying—Killing People’

Lhendup G Bhutia

Martin Amis talks about Donald Trump’s sexuality and Islamic fanaticism

Inside the Soul of Dmitri Shostakovich

S Prasannarajan

How much does it take to be an artist under Soviet communism? Julian Barnes' exquisite portrait of a tormented musical genius

Subhas Chandra Bose: Stalin’s Prisoner?

Iqbal Malhotra

Was Netaji sent to the Gulag? The Subhas Chandra Bose files might reveal many hidden truths

“Stalin was a man of surpassing intelligence and willpower”

Ullekh NP

Stephen Mark Kotkin on Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, his first volume in a three-part study of the Russian autocrat which hit the stands recently