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Apr 12, 20195 min read
Jallianwala Bagh at 100: myth versus reality
The narrow entrance to Jallianwala Bagh has little to scare the visitor today. It leads conveniently into an open garden where tourists...
Apr 12, 20194 min read
Jallianwala Bagh massacre: ‘Deep regret’ is simply not good enough
Though no one was holding their breath, there was some expectation of a British apology on the occasion of the centenary of the horrific...
Apr 11, 20191 min read
The Post American World | Podcast
The Jaipur Bytes podcast, hosted by Lakshya Datta, delivers thought-provoking ideas and meaningful debates from the iconic Jaipur...
Mar 30, 20195 min read
Punjab’s epochal milestones, key challenges | The Tribune
IT is truly a privilege to be here, on this spring day, in this invigorating intellectual space of Majha House, in the heart of this...
Nov 25, 20188 min read
The making of a maverick martyr
At 9 a.m. sharp, on July 31, 1940, Udham Singh was hanged to death from a 15-foot wooden beam stretched across a room in Pentonville...
Aug 31, 20186 min read
What did the British achieve in a century in India? | Financial Times
Seventy-one years on since the union flag came down on the Indian sub-continent, the debate about whether the Raj only pillaged and...
Sep 18, 20172 min read
India is now a literary destination, says Indian Ambassador to US Navtej Sarna
While extolling the benefits of the growing interest in literature given, he said, “This is India’s 70th year of independence. We have...
Sep 1, 20173 min read
A Life of Adventure and Delight | Financial Times
Akhil Sharma only recently accepted, on purely political grounds, the mantle of an immigrant writer. His reluctance to get boxed in,...
Sep 26, 20161 min read
Speak, Yesterday’s People
Alexievich’s visceral first-person accounts from the last days of the USSR are saturated with anger, longing and hope. Read full review...
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