The University of Chicago is home to one of the world's great collections for the study of South Asia. There are over 700,000 volumes related to Southern Asia there, covering all the languages and dialects of the region. How these vast collections came to be is a story not told

It has been more than 20 days. The dead body of the worker and the JCB which collapsed with him haven’t been taken out. His family has come all the way from UP and sits there day and night. You don’t hear any halla in the media. timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/mu…

Narendra Modi is rebuffing a clearly adverse mandate, and getting away with it. My column The Telegraph TTOpinion telegraphindia.com/opinion/cold-t…

Amid all the renewed rowing over Emergency, posting an earlier piece on how hollow criticism sounds coming from the current regime sankarshanthakur.in/2018/07/04/sha…

The new spectre haunting #Kashmir My column The Telegraph TTOpinion tomorrow.

When will you ever get to see again these two great sportsmen - Rafael Nadal and Carlos Alcaraz - play alongside in a competitive game of tennis? #paris2024olympics

Azaadi Mubarak, Doston! 🇮🇳

“The waters, our waters, aren’t still, they remain on the boil, let nobody be persuaded otherwise. They are more on the boil than earlier; this summer’s election verdict stoked the fires under them” My The Telegraph column today TTOpinion telegraphindia.com/opinion/dust-a…

Tributes and love. What an endearing and affable person, no longer among us, alas. Farewell, Sitaram Yechury. 🙏🏻telegraphindia.com/7-days/whateve…