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I write these words in Kochi, a city whose very history is intertwined with the global spice trade. For over two millennia, this coastline has...
In the vast, often self-indulgent landscape of contemporary poetry, Badri Raina’s “Stout and Tender” arrives like a sharp intake of breath on a...
If Pakistan succeeds, India should be among the first to celebrate the return of peace. Celebrating a neighbour’s successful mediation does not...
If Pakistan succeeds, India should be among the first to celebrate the return of peace. Celebrating a neighbour’s successful mediation does not...
By fostering a ‘silver economy’ that incentivises private investment in elder-care technology and infrastructure, Kerala can ensure that its...
India, at her noblest, has always been a land of conversation. Our intellectual inheritance was not forged in silence but in dialogue. The sages of...
We were reluctant to condemn the Soviet Union’s flagrant violations of international law in Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), and Afghanistan...
There are few joys in public life as deeply personal as watching a young talent you have known since boyhood rise to fulfil the promise you sensed in...
The realisation that a single geopolitical tremor — a pandemic or a sudden invasion — can collapse a supply chain has turned trade into a...
Uncomfortable questions persist about the strategic logic of unleashing war. Was this gamble for regime change inspired by a desire to create a...
For decades, the discourse surrounding the Vizhinjam International Transshipment Port has been anchored in the language of civil engineering-24 metres...
As the Budget session of Parliament has got under way, it is arguably time to reflect not merely on governance as an administrative necessity, but as...
They had insisted—almost pleaded—that I visit them, and so, with a touch of reluctance at first, I made my way to that quiet, unhurried village....
As Mathrubhumi Publishers release the Malayalam edition of my newest book, The Sage Who Reimagined Hinduism, a few days after the Vice-President of...
This month, I find myself speaking at two literary festivals in Kerala – at the Kerala LitFest on Kozhikode Beach and then at the Mathrubhumi...