India
Churchill and the genocide myth
Zareer Masani says the wartime prime minister has been unfairly vilified over the 1943 Indian famine
Indira Gandhi: a gift from the gods?
How India’s first – and only – female prime minister exploited a Hindu goddess
Why does the BBC need to lie about Britain’s history?
Indian nationalist fantasies about the Bengal famine can’t be the point of the licence fee
The man who reinvented India
On 99th anniversary of PV Narasimha Rao’s birth it is time to rehabilitate a traduced politician
How Modi turned Covid-19 into a cash machine
For the Indian premier, the virus is a deus ex machina
Modi’s ghastly Delhi dream
The plan to remodel Lutyens’s grand capital is a monument to conceit
India’s rape crisis
India is gripped by a “rape emergency”, a brutal conflict that is escalating
The anarchy lacks context
Dalrymple’s Anarchy says more about about a selling machine somewhat different to the East India Company
Megalomania
Megalopolis is a gaudy, self-indulgent mess
Suella all along
You can achieve anything if you don’t take the credit
The DUP aren’t tough negotiators
The party that claimed to stand up for unionists capitulated at every turn
Chill message of Booker shortlist
The contempt of publishers for middle-class life and values is diminishing the novel
The Candy Man can
The people’s party: now bankrolled by one of the country’s richest property developers
Why is the BBC so obsessed with drag?
Incessant coverage of drag shows and drag queens has become something of a running joke
Spotify Wrapped is good for the soul
On the joys of exploring a year in music
How to win at Monopoly
Once you’ve amassed your empire, ruthlessness must be the name of the game
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
Why can’t there be more vampires?
Bloodsucking, in various more or less metaphorical guises, is after all opera’s happiest place
Hoop dreams
Football turned out to be a poor way of shirking parental duties
