It's Indian democracy's most severe test yet, warns the celebrated author of 'The Idea of India'
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Absorbing the world,and re-inventing it
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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.
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Indianness cannot be a fixity or a dogma. It remains with us as a magic puzzle
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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.
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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.
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Giant-in-the-making, cub in the Big Boy's Club. India has to think deep about what exactly is 'arriving'.
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Patrick French reveals enough devil in Naipaul, the autocrat and the alchemist
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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.
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A text-centric conspectus studies Hinduism’s pluralistic ways, ignores living reality
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