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India

Amritsar: beginning of the end of Empire
The true casualty figures are still hotly disputed 100 years after the Punjab massacre, but its real legacy was the slow death of the Raj
Zareer Masani

Last Days Of India’s Empress
A biography of Indira Gandhi's final years offers insights into a dark period of unmitigated corruption in Indian politics
Zareer Masani

Inclusion in India
What the Indian elections mean for a first-time voter
Nikita Malik

Delhi’s Delights
'To go without beer for a day is a small inconvenience which adds a suitable solemnity to the business of democracy'
Douglas Murray

Jovial Pragmatists
SOAS’s new exhibition on Zoroastrianism fails to capture the rich cultural and historical legacy of this much-misunderstood and embattled faith
Zareer Masani

The Making of the Mahatma
Dubious racial attitudes, an obsession with excrement and sexual eccentricities: Gandhi Before India reveals the unsavoury sides of the statesman’s character
Zareer Masani

Shock Value
For all the Arts community's grandstanding about its political value, none of its number was brave enough to protest the late, great M.F. Husain's plight
Nick Cohen

India: Tariq Ali’s Plan for Pakistan

Although previously banned, Tariq Ali's books can now be read anywhere in Pakistan. In the aftermath of the jihadist attacks in Mumbai and on the Sri Lankan cricket team, will the Brit-Pak's fluent words offer any solutions to the problems there?

Denis MacShane

Don’t Write off America
It's fashionable to say the US is in terminal decline. Don't bet on it - still less wish for it
George Walden

Mumbai: On the ‘Slumdog’ Trail

Standpoint's Writer-At-Large visits the slums of Mumbai to assess the Oscar-winning film

Jonathan Foreman

Underrated: Abroad
The ravenous longing for the infinite possibilities of “otherwhere”
Stephen Bayley

The king of cakes
"Yuletide revels were designed to see you through the dark days — and how dark they seem today"
Carolyn Hart

A tripod in the sky
The view from above
Christian House
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