Thomas Chatterton Williams | Arthur Koestler

Open Conversation with Salman Rushdie, author

A search in Benares for Brahmins, the twice-born, leads to an encounter with a young member of the aristocracy of the mind

Modi, if he is to bring profound change, must not go the Erdogan or Rajapaksa route. Because the conditions for the emergence of that kind of leader do exist in India

Arvind Kejriwal is the most dangerous of all political animals: the messiah. The man for whom any existing reality is too impure to be corrected

The masks are a celebration of sameness from which many people feel shut out. They convey both the euphoria of this election and its air of mutual distrust

The wait is over. The Congress Party has found a man to fight Modi from Benares.

The enigma that is Rahul Gandhi has proved too inscrutable for the people of Benares. No one has a word to say about him, not even a harsh word

What Sanskrit has meant to me

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…