Interview: Audrey Truschke on Sanskrit histories of the Mughal era and Hindutva trolls

The author of ‘The Language of History: Sanskrit Narratives of Muslim Pasts’ speaks about the most recent controversy, historical misreadings and more.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Mar 28, 2021 · 08:30 am

Interview: Sanjib Baruah on Assam elections, identity politics and the ‘cash-transfer state’

The author of ‘In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast’ speaks about how the past animates Assam’s present.

Arunabh Saikia

· Mar 27, 2021 · 09:00 am

Interview: Yashaswini Chandra on what the horse tells us about India's past

The author of ‘The Tale of the Horse: A History of India on Horseback’ on the animal’s influence over mythology and the medieval economy.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jan 23, 2021 · 08:30 am

Interview: Alice Evans on why India's big feminist demand should be labour-intensive growth

The author of the forthcoming ‘The Great Gender Divergence’ on how agriculture can explain why some parts of India are more gender-equal than others.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jan 16, 2021 · 06:30 am

What does everyone keep getting wrong about India (and China and Pakistan)?

A collection of answers from authors, scholars and experts on misconceptions that they frequently encounter.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Jan 09, 2021 · 06:30 am

Modi’s politics of vishwas, dissent in Indian history and other ideas from the Political Fix Q&As

A look back at some of the many fascinating conversations we had in 2020.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Dec 26, 2020 · 07:30 am

Interview: Manan Ahmed Asif on the ‘Loss of Hindustan’ and how colonialism altered our past

The author speaks about ‘decolonising’ history and why we can’t look at the pre-colonial period without acknowledging the prejudices of colonial historians.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Dec 12, 2020 · 06:30 am

Interview: Kaushik Krishnan on 'V-shaped recoveries' and how the lockdown affected Indian households

The chief economist at the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy says the employment numbers are still worrisome, even though they appear to have recovered.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Dec 05, 2020 · 09:00 am

Interview: Vinay Sitapati on Vajpayee, Advani and the success of the Hindu nationalist movement

The author of ‘Jugalbandi: The BJP before Modi’ speaks about the RSS worldview and what it tells us about the party that dominates India today.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Nov 28, 2020 · 09:00 am

Interview: Louise Tillin on how the Modi era upended conventional thinking about Indian federalism

The director of the King’s College London’s India Institute on a ‘defining moment’ for the future of ties between Centre and states.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Nov 21, 2020 · 07:30 am

Interview: Christophe Jaffrelot on understanding the Emergency and its relevance to Modi’s India

The co-author of ‘India’s First Dictatorship; The Emergency, 1975–1977’ says we haven’t paid enough attention to how the Emergency changed India.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Nov 07, 2020 · 06:30 am

Interview: Romila Thapar on the history of dissent and how it shaped Hinduism and India

The renowned historian’s new book, Voices of Dissent, looks at moments in India’s past when the dominant narrative was challenged.

Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

· Oct 31, 2020 · 06:30 am