Mukul Kesavan recalls the days of Emergency and student politics during Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s rule. He says her principal legacy remains the systematic replacement of institutional governance with the vicious precedents of personalised rule
T20s have simplified the game, reduced it to its primary colours, bleached it of some of the cunning and subtlety and skill that made Test cricket such a sophisticated contest
Mumbai is all of a piece in its colonial and postcolonial modernity, whereas Delhi’s modernity, such as it is, is at odds with its medieval past
Should the lives of writers influence the reception of their work?
Hipshot on the zebra by amber light/Bum cocked, knees spread for room, a little bent/He picks away at his crotch in plain sight/With unhurried, scientific detachment/This isn't a preliminary to sooing/So what's he doing?
My new year begins in mid-July and has done for 30 years, ever since I signed up to study history in Delhi University in the mid-1970s...
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