Profile of Sunil Khilnani
Khilnani’s latest book, Incarnations: India in 50 Lives, sieves through the uncatalogued heaps of Indian history and picks some shining gems
It's Indian democracy's most severe test yet, warns the celebrated author of 'The Idea of India'
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.
Indianness cannot be a fixity or a dogma. It remains with us as a magic puzzle