The urban shift from patriarchy to masculinity has elevated self-made men but also increased their sense of vulnerability

A year in verse

India has reinvented both patriotism and nationalism by infusing them with the republican spirit

It learned from the European experience that status war matters more than class war

A poem

The persistence of illiberalism

How the distinction between public and private affects Covid management

The contrasting styles of nationalism and citizenship

Failing the shibboleth test

A dark comedy of errors

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…