Documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan discusses his 1992 film that captured the first attack on the Babri Masjid in Ayodhya and why it is still relevant more than 30 years later
Interview with Rohan Venkat on the defence and economic partnership driving India-Israel relations, and how this is a departure from India’s history of solidarity with Palestine
With the victory of Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League a foregone conclusion, the big question is how India, China, Europe and the United States will be configured in relation to Bangladesh
Abhishek Choudhary’s new biography of Atal Behari Vajpayee examines the life and legacy of India’s first BJP prime minister, puncturing misguided liberal nostalgia and the hero-worship of the Hindu Right
In 'Nehru’s India: A History in Seven Myths', Taylor Sherman looks to debunk Jawaharlal Nehru’s positive legacy, failing to see how his vision still saves the country from the worst of itself
Azad Essa’s 'Hostile Homelands' explores the ideological convergence of Hindutva and Zionism, and the consequences for Kashmir and Palestine – but there is much more driving India and Israel’s deepening ties
In 'Pandemic India', David Arnold offers a reflective study of Covid, cholera, plague, the Spanish flu and other historical mass contagions, from the time of the British Raj to the Modi government
