Play Up, And Play The Game

Military leader, royal, prolific lover, viceregal couple and lifelong influencer—Dickie and Edwina wore...

Myth Under A Microscope

A new history of Jallianwala Bagh gives due emphasis on the suffocatingly hostile nationalist backcloth and...

How The Ruling Caste Played

Casting aside anti-colonial truisms, Gilmour peeps into personal, official documents to present complex...

A Screw Turns Back In Time

A brilliantly-researched book says that free trade under colonialism served India’s economic interests...

Happy Under The Padishah

Tipu’s horrific despotism is whitewashed in a biography of fulsome praise

A Gandhian Laboratory

A pictorial biography of Gandhi doesn’t ignore his blemishes

The Unforgotten Elephants

Rich cast and tapestry, momentous times make for a thrilling, but deeply flawed, book

Of Steel, Metal Birds And More

The Tata sky is a limitless firmament, and its gods a generation of Parsi gentlemen like no other

Chacha’s Musty Coat-Tails

Nehru cost India 50 years of growth. His legacy is a petty dynasty.

Bombay Diary

The official FSI limits have been widely disregarded by private builders in cahoots with corrupt offi­cers...

The Achaemenids At Ankleshwar

Parsis: myth, ethics, the arts and pride informs every fibre of their material pursuit. A SOAS exhibition...

That Lawyer In Natal

Guha focuses on Gandhi’s ‘less-known’ period in South Africa, follows him and his followers in minute...

What If Attlee Hadn’t Partitioned India?

The biggest hypothetical question of the subcontinent

Steel Touched By Porcelain

Her doom: her politics of manipulation

Way To A Benign Empire

Alexander's abiding appeal betrays a yearning for effective global governance

In Black And White

Traffic Jams On The Road To Affluence