Vive Paris: The Beginning of History

Vive Paris: Friday the 13th

Vive Paris

Henry Kissinger: The Soft Power of Super K

A portrait of the world’s most influential diplomat as an idealist. Niall Ferguson in his magisterial biography of Henry Kissinger discovers the intellectual who preceded the statesman

Maximum Government Tax

What else can you call the cess being levied by the Centre for Swachh Bharat?

Sachin Goes Stateside

A veterans tour provides a poignant moment for reflection on cricket’s beauty and its troubles

Modi in UK: Illusions of a Vanished Past

It’s a fallacy to imagine that being the first prime minister to be born after Independence, Modi is immune to the magic of the British Raj

Modi in UK: Shadow Over the Show

The past kept intruding into Narendra Modi’s spectacular London visit. Still, he and his host David Cameron won the day by focussing on the future

Pleasures of Being Doggone Gods

Dog dramas would just be part of the general drama of Indian life if it weren’t for the out-of-control and totally upstaging cow drama

Getting By with Fewer Friends

Taming of the Famously Late • Not so Prim-n-Propah, After All