review
A text-centric conspectus studies Hinduism’s pluralistic ways, ignores living reality
Magazine | Nov 02, 2009
Interview
The importance of Obama's win, areas his administration is likely to focus on and what it will mean for US-India relations.
Magazine | Nov 17, 2008
Review
The HIV/AIDS debate in India hangs somewhere between imagining the worst and complete denial. These are sixteen stories exploring the issue's human dimension.
Magazine | Sep 01, 2008
Review
Patrick French reveals enough devil in Naipaul, the autocrat and the alchemist
Magazine | Apr 21, 2008
insight
That's how the British saw Krishna Menon. The release of MI5's top secret files reveal how powerfully India's high commissioner agitated the West.
Magazine | Mar 19, 2007
essay
Giant-in-the-making, cub in the Big Boy's Club. India has to think deep about what exactly is 'arriving'.
Magazine | Aug 21, 2006
Partition
It's been almost 60 years since Partition. Now is a good time to get a clearer understanding of the events that took place and to take responsibility for it.
Magazine | Aug 22, 2005
interview
Author of The Idea of India, Sunil Khilnani is currently director of the South Asia Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University. Excerpts from an interview:
Magazine | Nov 15, 2004
Full Text
A choice between India as Brand Software or as Brand Saffron, between the promise of Bangalore or the threat of Gujarat. And yet the alternatives are in fact more complicated and especially since Sept 11 the calculus of choice must be more nuanced...
Web | Dec 22, 2003
Full Text
What gave Nehru 'strength and hope'? What were the 'workings of the mind' upon which he grew to rely, on which he rested his faith?
Web | Dec 09, 2002
Indianness cannot be a fixity or a dogma. It remains with us as a magic puzzle
Magazine | Aug 20, 2001
Society
No society, especially a noisy, disparate, ill-tempered and internally unequal democracy like ours, can ever hope to function on auto-pilot, in the belief that someone, somewhere, is doing the understanding on our behalf.
Magazine | Oct 16, 2000
Millennium Special
Absorbing the world,and re-inventing it
Magazine | Nov 15, 1999
Perspective
It's Indian democracy's most severe test yet, warns the celebrated author of 'The Idea of India'
Magazine | Mar 30, 1998
Profile
A New Nehruite and urbanised Indian, Sunil Khilnani continues to be amazed by his country
Magazine | Aug 25, 1997