Journalism in Times of Strident Nationalism This is as signal honour and I am grateful to the trustees of the Media Foundation for inviting me this ev[...]
The Ethics of Gandhi And The Dead Weight of Statecraft A non-historian in a houseful of those who worship at the Temple of Mnemosyne, the Greek goddes[...]
This is a profoundly disturbing book and for that reason should be read by everyone interested in some distorted patterns of thinking and action in ou[...]
Foreword Shri Chidambaram is nothing if not consistent, focused and prolific. For four years now his weekly commentaries have made available to intere[...]
Foreword This is a timely study undertaken, in the author’s words ‘in an environment of deep desolation at insistent and deliberate violations of [...]
Furthering the Federal Structure I thank the Government of Karnataka, Samruddha Bharat and NDTV for inviting me today to inaugurate this important con[...]
Citizenship HAMID ANSARI SINCE time immemorial, humans came together in societies and sought to bestow identities on themselves. The Code of Hammurabi[...]
The U.S.’s plan to pull out of Afghanistan is an appropriate time to re-examine the idea of enabling its neutrality In an article published in The H[...]
The Challenge of Reconstruction I thank the Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Shri N. Ram and my friend Shri M.A. Baby for inviting me to inaug[...]
Democracy and the Perils of Bending Reality I thank Shri Abhimanyu Chandra and the Academe India for inviting to give the keynote address in for this [...]