Zareer Masani is a London-based historian and broadcaster. He is the author of Macaulay: Pioneer of India’s Modernization
Historians cannot square the wartime British prime minister’s fascination for India with his pessimism about its independent future
In defence of dignity in departure
The morality of empire
India would be a poorer place without the work of British archaeologists
Nationalist tropes and imperial assumptions miss the Raj’s real economic impact
The making—and the almost unmaking—of the Constitution
An account of the modern world through the history of written constitutions
Has the empire been the default model for global governance?
Are we still paying for the sins of the first secular, socialist Prime Minister?
A war we cannot win
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…
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm
Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.
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