Totem of secular India

A STRONG sense of pathos surrounds the life of Mohiuddin Ahmed, more famously known as Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. He was undoubtedly a great leader who

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Demystifying caste

The book will appeal to anyone who is interested in understanding the highly complex phenomenon of caste and is prepared to go beyond the “sacred” and

India’s failure in Kashmir

The book reveals all too clearly how in Jammu and Kashmir the intelligence agencies subverted the democratic process with intrigue and the electoral p

Media’s problems

The book turns the searchlight on a wide spectrum of issues concerning the media.

Nehru’s contradictions

The four volumes on Nehru that no student of India’s history can do without throw light on different facets of his personality, including his intolera

Porous divide

Rather than looking at religious communities as binary opposites, the book presents a picture of a religious spectrum where considerable osmosis took

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China up-close

The book deals at great length with the author’s business engagements with China, the thrust of which was Sino-U.S. trade and economic cooperation.

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