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The People’s Action Party cannot take the electorate for granted. (Bloomberg)

Singapore has voted for familiarity and stability in uncertain times

4 min read . 06 May 2025

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet leader Josef Stalin on the patio of the Livadia Palace in Yalta, Crimea, on 4 February 1945. File photo: AP

The neglect of Asia was the great failure of Yalta, writes Stephen Kotkin

6 min read . 13 Apr 2025

Shivaji in the court of Aurangzeb, by M.V. Dhurandhar. (Wikimedia Commons)

Aurangzeb's tomb: ‘Correcting’ historical wrongs is a slippery slope

5 min read . 12 Apr 2025

The big puzzle of the economic history of colonial India is that a vast number of Indians thought the Empire was a good deal. (Bloomberg)

The British Raj extracted $65 trillion from India: Fact or fiction?

4 min read . 28 Jan 2025

Whatever the ideals pursued, a republic evolves through the active exercise of reason in a contemporary context.

India must flex reason rather than muscle in honour of its republic

3 min read . 27 Jan 2025

Contemporary climbing Sherpas in Darjeeling. (Image courtesy Dilip Banerjee)

Following the trail of Darjeeling Sherpas

4 min read . 18 Jan 2025

The author's grandfather reading a letter in Urdu, one of the languages he used in his childhood. Courtesy: Samiya Chopra

Chronicling inherited memories of the Partition

3 min read . 15 Aug 2024

Nixon and Kissinger had a vested interest in supporting Pakistan, an American ally that was covertly helping to bring about their historic opening to China. Photo: AFP

Henry Kissinger dies at 100: Check his anti-India comments

1 min read . 30 Nov 2023

‘Shah ‘Alam, Mughal Emperor, Conveying the Grant of the Diwani to Lord Clive, August 1765’ (1818) by Benjamin West.

Books on the Big Business of the British Empire

7 min read . 02 Jun 2023