In this issue

Editor’s Note ~ by S Prasannarajan; In Praise of the Hindu Common Sense ~ by Swapan Dasgupta; The Great Wall Against China ~ by Shashi Tharoor; The Mughal and the Tudor ~ by TCA Raghavan; Who Is a Minority? ~ by Rajeev Deshpande; The Churchill Paradox ~ by Zareer Masani; The Wartime Guru ~ by Ullekh NP; Many Napoleons ~ by Ira Mukhoty; The Rock Chronicles ~ by Madhavankutty Pillai; Taki 183 ~ by Rahul Pandita; The Seductive Feminine ~ by Alka Pande; Home and Hearth ~ by Sudeep Paul; Assisted Romance ~ by Lhendup G Bhutia; The Name of the Number ~ by Aditya Iyer; The Breeze and the Dew ~ by David Pine; Blowing In the Shamal ~ by Sabin Iqbal; The Girl Who Became a Bird ~ by Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih; Sermon In the Sands ~ by Manvendra Singh; Caught In the Web ~ by Vandana Kohli; The Helicoptering Author ~ by Sumana Roy; The Christmas Carol of a Real Son of a Beatnik ~ by Carlo Pizzati; The Pink Pantheon ~ by Nandini Nair; Wars and Pieces ~ by Aman Nath; The Magician of Mashobra ~ by Navtej Sarna; Stargazer ~ by Kaveree Bamzai and more…

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