Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘The state will come after the defenceless’ ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ is on the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist.
A passage to Japan The author’s gift is to walk through the doors of other people’s homes and discover their inner lives.
Old plot, new yarn The author has chosen to revive the century-old Bhawal case, interweaving facts with fiction.
A rereading of Kerala modernity The mongraph revisits the all-encompassing influence of the Left but also lays bare its weaknesses.
The fragment in history It seeks to foreground the unextraordinary, neglected pieces of evidence in the history writing of early India.
History as prisonA.G. NOORANIShortly after he had left India, Mountbatten wrote to Nehru on August 15, 1948, warning him against going to war with Pakistan... . But even years lat
Congress and `nationalist' MuslimsA.G. NOORANIIT was not only Jinnah whom Gandhi and the Congress spurned. They spurned also Muslims within their own ranks. V.P. Menon noted: "Nationalist Muslims
Jinnah and PartitionA.G. NOORANIThe Century has given birth to a great epoch; but the great moment finds a petty generation.
The promise of reasonJOHN M. ALEXANDERSpeech serves to indicate not only what is useful and what is harmful, but also what is just and what is unjust.
Our secrets in others' trunksA.G. NOORANIHOW would any self-respecting person feel if his family's secrets are locked up in the trunks in the house of someone else, who publicises to the worl
American powerA.G. NOORANI"It is an infallible rule that a prince who is not wise himself cannot be well advised, unless by chance he leaves himself entirely in the hands of on
Prelude to stormsA.G. NOORANITHIS is an important volume because it is a trailer to a yet more important one that would follow next. It warns tantalisingly of the storms to come -
Playing with warA.G. NOORANITHREE years after the dangerous tamasha of Operation Parakram - which the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led regime headed by Atal Bihari Vajpayee stage
Punjab and PakistanA.G. NOORANI"YOUR telegram, to put it mildly, shows an utter lack of decency and sense of proportion." It is doubtful whether anyone had used such language ever b
The diplomat's integrityA.G. NOORANIRAYMOND L. GARTHOFF has been variously described as "a one-man truth squad" and "the greatest storekeeper for the Cold War struggles". His two massive
Islam - a Russian perspectiveA.G. NOORANI"A victorious line of march had been prolonged above a thousand miles from the Rock of Gibraltar to the Banks of the Loire; the repetition of an equal
An institute of Bodology to investigate the past The Bodos are constructing a comprehensive picture of the Brahmaputra civilisation.
