It's Indian democracy's most severe test yet, warns the celebrated author of 'The Idea of India'
Absorbing the world,and re-inventing it
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
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.
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.
Giant-in-the-making, cub in the Big Boy's Club. India has to think deep about what exactly is 'arriving'.
Patrick French reveals enough devil in Naipaul, the autocrat and the alchemist
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.
A text-centric conspectus studies Hinduism’s pluralistic ways, ignores living reality
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