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?
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