Despatches from a neglected past
The question of moving away from established “mainstream” history has been gaining traction in recent years. A spate of successful ...
Read moreDetailsThe question of moving away from established “mainstream” history has been gaining traction in recent years. A spate of successful ...
Read moreDetailsThe question of ideology in Indian politics has been debated and dismissed for a long time. Writing for the New ...
Read moreDetailsThe best of literature is often hidden away in regional languages. It is by sheer luck that sometimes we get ...
Read moreDetailsAnwesh Satpathy In a review of Satyajit Ray’s ‘Apur Sansar’ (The World of Apu), the critic Dwight MacDonald castigated Ray ...
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I t is the sign of the times, transcending geographical frontiers, that democracy is being grotesquely distorted, giving a...
Read moreDetailsIn a landmark verdict, the Brazilian Supreme Federal Court, that country’s highest judicial authority, on 11 September convicted former president...
Read moreDetailsAn American scholar has written a book in which he tries to explain China’s recent rise. Dan Wang’s thesis is...
Read moreDetailsIndia’s top anti-corruption watchdog, the CVC, has just delivered a stinging reality check to the CBI, and it’s not a...
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