We all go on trips with friends. Those car rides. Those stops on the roadside to sip a cup of chai. That loud music and too much noise huddling between soothing classical tunes and the ...

Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s 2003 book The Burden of Democracy is a short but extraordinarily evocative essay on the Indian democracy in the making. In these 120-odd ...

When a journalist once asked Jawaharlal Nehru how he would stop the ‘contagion’ of military coups across India’s neighbourhood (read: India’s near east), Nehru remarked that the ‘contagion [of ...