The making of a new global order

Gregory Conti | Katarina Forrester | Juan Gabriel Vásquez | Arthur Koestler

India’s reactionary modernism

He challenges the illusions about power and democracy, wealth and violence, Hinduism and tradition, nationalism and justice, and about all that metaphysical cant. He is the mirror in which we dare not look at ourselves. His presence is a constant reminder of our bad conscience and bad faith

Let neither fear nor community piety usurp our freedom

Liberals lose the plot from Paris to Delhi

He did a far better job of gaining knowledge of the larger sweep of history than any of his contemporaries. The confidence with which we condemn Nehru exposes the narrowness of our certainties more than it detracts from his achievements

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…