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Narasimha Rao, a raconteur's view

Sanjaya Baru's account of the people and action behind the 1991 economic policy reform is fascinating, even when it veers towards being biased

The one-man songbook

Inside India's oldest TV news brand

That book prompted a second when the next election came around in 1950

Uncommon saga of rural innovation

The author's feelings of guilt, gratitude, suffering, happiness, obligation, and so on are not usually central in an academic thesis

Diplomacy and patronage

Diplomacy especially attracts presidential cronies, and those that buy their ambassadorships

Can you be black and Republican?

Scuttling from India

The voice of pre-independence India

Why the President is not a rubber stamp

Borderline strategies against jihad

Behind the US-Iran nuclear deal

A Panglossian idea of India

Ramachandra Guha's collection of essays are a valuable and readable source of information but whether they are relevant is an open question

Eyeless on Gaza

Shell Shocked is structured as a diary of a war where the violence visited upon a people can only serve to outrage

The art of the sustainable advantage

A US lens on India's world view

Hinduism and the Hindu Rashtra

The book raises the broad question: If India is a Hindu Rashtra, in which religion and politics overlap, then what is Hinduism?

The derangement of American politics

Why Islam is not 'exceptional'

Shadi Hamid's analysis points to a fundamental misreading of the history and politics of West Asia

Mysteries of Rekha's mystique

Yasser Usman's appraisal of the actor's life and work remains entangled in familiar anecdotes

The ghosts of Hillary's past