Father of the Nation is too Big a Crown for Him

One of the great ironies of India is that Mohandas Gandhi – rather than Gautama Buddha, Adi Shankaracharya or Chandragupta Vikramaditya – is the “Father of the Nation”. India’s history has a galaxy of More...

Amitav Ghosh’s comparison of Narendra Modi and Erdogan ignores history

In the 30 November edition of Times Of India, novelist  Amitav Ghosh penned a piece in which he draws a significant comparison between the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi and Turkish President Recep Tayyip More...