Aug 13, 2005 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.
Mar 10, 2007 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.
Aug 12, 2006 Giant-in-the-making, cub in the Big Boy's Club. India has to think deep about what exactly is 'arriving'.
Apr 12, 2008 Patrick French reveals enough devil in Naipaul, the autocrat and the alchemist
Aug 23, 2008 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.
Oct 24, 2009 A text-centric conspectus studies Hinduism’s pluralistic ways, ignores living reality
Dec 21, 2010 Our basics are in place. But are we braced for handling uncertainty?
Feb 19, 2011 M.J. Akbar brings new insight to Pakistan’s past, but fails to fully plumb its maddening present and possible future
Apr 22, 2011 Lelyveld shows Gandhi, the great experimentalist and contradictor, at a half-awakened state in South Africa, his later self-magnification and an audacious claim to political command
Aug 19, 2011 A dystopic descent into the troubling nature of democracy, identity and the ego
Dec 24, 2011 It’s a matter of time before the irate Indian takes its leaders to task
Jan 27, 2012 That the nation persists is what has lent the India story such gravitas: an idea that’s taken strong root. But will the march of history leave us behind?
Nov 08, 2014 Modi and the BJP will only be deluding themselves if they think they can overwrite Nehru’s legacy
Dec 22, 2003 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...
Dec 09, 2002 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?