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22 June 2026

Why a historian of capitalism believes the neoliberal order is dying

Dinyar Patel Know more
27 May 2026

AI-driven world: Why wisdom is the new leadership imperative

Surya Tahora Know more
06 May 2026

Shrimp in banana cake, saravle, macroli and Bombay Duck everywhere – Mumbai’s world of food

Dinyar Patel Know more
26 March 2026

The East India Company and the politics of knowledge

Dinyar Patel Know more
06 February 2026

Why the ‘end of capitalism’ is being debated yet again

Dinyar Patel Know more
09 January 2026

Women lead the charge in a mysterious photo album of the Civil Disobedience movement

Dinyar Patel Know more
06 December 2025

South Asia’s five tectonic partitions

Dinyar Patel Know more
30 November 2025

Forgotten photos reveal women who powered India’s freedom struggle

Dinyar Patel Know more
20 November 2025

The new model of valuing wisdom in leadership

Surya Tahora Know more
13 November 2025

Why Ireland’s Great Famine matters

Dinyar Patel Know more
17 October 2025

Truth teller of empire

Dinyar Patel Know more
15 October 2025

As ‘Parsiana’ closes, Indian journalism loses a small but important voice

Dinyar Patel Know more
04 September 2025

Dadabhai Naoroji’s 200th birth anniversary: How early nationalists thought about mass education

Dinyar Patel Know more
20 August 2025

Indira Gandhi’s disastrous legacy that defined Indian democracy

Dinyar Patel Know more
27 July 2025

Panic and fear: How Bombay experienced the Great Uprising of 1857

Dinyar Patel Know more
25 July 2025

‘Gods, Guns and Missionaries’ by Manu S. Pillai review

Dinyar Patel Know more
15 July 2025

The radical legacy of the 19th century ‘Young Bengal’ movement

Dinyar Patel Know more
06 June 2025

In the history of modern Hindu identity, the failure and triumph of Hindutva

Dinyar Patel Know more
26 May 2025

Flow vs wisdom: What happens when the Zen monk meets the jazz saxophonist?

Surya Tahora Know more
21 May 2025

What Donald Trump has in common with colonial-era Indian thinkers

Dinyar Patel Know more
02 May 2025

In Amrita Shah’s book about the voyages of one family, a tale of migrating Indians

Dinyar Patel Know more
11 April 2025

Dadabhai Naoroji – early nationalist economist

Dinyar Patel Know more
12 March 2025

In the life and times of Victor Sassoon, an uncanny resemblance to today’s world in flux

Dinyar Patel Know more
19 February 2025

British imperialism, Bombay business – the India-Ireland connection through time

Dinyar Patel Know more
07 February 2025

Four simple – yet difficult – steps for reforming Indian archives and libraries

Dinyar Patel Know more
23 January 2025

One Nation One Subscription is important — but so are libraries and archives

Dinyar Patel Know more
01 January 2025

'The worlds of Victor Sassoon’ by Rosemary Wakeman [review]

Dinyar Patel Know more
03 December 2024

How can India fix its deep-seated economic and political problems?

Dinyar Patel Know more
26 August 2024

Child widow to single mother, political icon – how Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay blazed a trail

Dinyar Patel Know more
24 July 2024

6P unified framework: Understanding wisdom in the era of artificial intelligence

Surya Tahora Know more
17 July 2024

How an Indian’s swadeshi steam knocked the wind out of a British shipping giant’s sails

Dinyar Patel Know more
29 June 2024

Stroll into the 1850s Bombay with this curated travel guide

Dinyar Patel Know more
24 June 2024

What does history say about how Mumbai changed and stayed the same over the past 200 years?

Dinyar Patel Know more
27 May 2024

Book review: A people made for democracy

Dinyar Patel Know more
29 March 2024

The myths of Jawaharlal Nehru’s India

Dinyar Patel Know more
15 February 2024

What does the rise and fall of the Swatantra Party mean in the era of Narendra Modi?

Dinyar Patel Know more
11 January 2024

Missed opportunities and underdevelopment: On Ashoka Mody’s “India is broken”

Dinyar Patel Know more
07 October 2023

Crony capitalism, 16th-century style: On Philip J. Stern’s “Empire, Incorporated”

Dinyar Patel Know more
18 September 2023

Why BR Ambedkar thought – and worried – deeply about democracy in India

Dinyar Patel Know more
18 July 2023

Pre-partition stories, filmi music made Radio Ceylon a household name in India and Pakistan

Dinyar Patel Know more
20 May 2023

Book Review: Anand Gopal's book - The life and thought of B.R. Ambedkar | An exceptional life

Dinyar Patel Know more
09 May 2023

Book Review: Sugar, slavery, and capitalism: On Ulbe Bosma’s “The World of Sugar”

Dinyar Patel Know more
21 December 2022

Book Review: Indian liberalism between nation and empire. The political life of Gopal Krishna Gokhale

Dinyar Patel Know more
06 October 2022

The rise and fall of the Sassoons

Dinyar Patel Know more
23 August 2022

In the 75th year of Independence, let us not forget the deep liberal roots of modern Indian society

Dinyar Patel Know more
05 July 2022

Avabai Wadia: The lawyer who became India’s family planning pioneer

Parinaz Madan & Dinyar Patel Know more
01 July 2022

To Raise a Fallen People: The anthology shows how half-forgotten 19th-century writings speak to continuing social problems

Dinyar Patel Know more
21 June 2022

Book Review: Unexpected Voices in Imperial Parliaments edited by Josep M. Fradera, José María Portillo and Teresa Segura-Garcia

Dinyar Patel Know more
11 April 2022

Dadabhai Naoroji: India’s first economic reformer?

Dinyar Patel Know more
01 April 2022

Robert Kennedy’s politics was almost Ambedkarite. The world needs leaders like him today

Dinyar Patel Know more
16 January 2022

Heavy lies the head that wears the crown

Tanvi Mankodi Know more
27 December 2021

An Indian Liberal in the Empire: The dilemmas of Srinivasa Sastri

Dinyar Patel Know more
20 November 2021

When Hindus and Muslims joined hands to riot

Dinyar Patel Know more
28 September 2021

Stereotyping & unconscious bias in organizations

Ashita Aggarwal Know more
18 September 2021

What does the writing of Constitutions have to do with wars? Plenty, as this book proves

Dinyar Patel Know more
11 July 2021

‘The Horde’: Marie Favereau rewrites the conventional history of the Mongol conquerors

Dinyar Patel Know more
27 June 2021

Khurshedben Naoroji: The singer who preached nonviolence to bandits

Dinyar Patel Know more
04 June 2021

Himalayan Histories

Dinyar Patel Know more
29 March 2021

Go abroad, young American

Dinyar Patel Know more
10 January 2021

Black Spartacus: A biography of the man who may have been the first great anti-colonialist leader

Dinyar Patel Know more
09 January 2021

Biographies | The lives of others

Dinyar Patel Know more
23 December 2020

The pioneering lawyer who fought for women’s suffrage in India

Dinyar Patel Know more
19 December 2020

What we have forgotten about the pandemics that killed millions of Indians over 100 years ago

Dinyar Patel Know more

How AI is bringing new energy to business education

Nitish Jain Know more
20 October 2020

Board seats for women successors: It is a matter of mindsets, not rights

Rajiv Agarwal Know more
11 October 2020

JBS Haldane’s life, via Samanth Subramanian’s biography, shows why scientists must be political too

Dinyar Patel Know more
08 October 2020

Shaping institutions: The art of critical thinking

R Gopalakrishna & Sushmita Srivastava Know more
07 October 2020

Kamala Harris and the ‘Other 1 Percent'

Dinyar Patel Know more
03 September 2020

Ninety-six shades of emotion in today’s age of emojis

Tulsi Jayakumar Know more
02 August 2020

Creating safe workspaces at home

Vidyut Lata Dhir & Rishabh Kochhar (PGDM 2020) Know more
02 August 2020

Introverts Vs Extroverts in the digital workplace

Vineeta Dwivedi & Seema Khanvilkar Know more
13 July 2020

The narrative of beauty has to change

Tulsi Jayakumar Know more
04 July 2020

Do Black lives matter to South Asians?

Dinyar Patel Know more
01 July 2020

Dadabhai Naoroji strove to be inclusive. Today’s majoritarian nationalism represents a betrayal of principles he bequeathed to India

Dinyar Patel Know more
20 June 2020

Are marketers breaking or building gender stereotypes?

Ashita Aggarwal & Rachna Wadhwa Know more
29 May 2020

Higher learning, upskilling and reskilling in times of Covid-19

Jyoti Jagasia & FPM 2018 Scholar Alka Aggarwal Know more
30 April 2020

The art of solitude: Travel vicariously through Central Asia with Robert Byron’s classic

Dinyar Patel Know more
24 April 2020

Covid-19: Importance of motivating language

Vineeta Dwivedi & Upasna A Agarwal Know more
24 April 2020

When quarter-se-quarter-tak thinking is a letdown

Tulsi Jayakumar Know more
19 April 2020

Epidemics change the course of nations and transform societies. Here are four lessons from history

Dinyar Patel Know more
22 March 2020

How Parsis shaped India’s taste for soft drinks

Dinyar Patel Know more
22 July 2019

S.R. Mehrotra (1931-2019): A tireless chronicler of India’s struggle for freedom

Dinyar Patel Know more
13 July 2019

The forgotten Indian inventor who dazzled London

Dinyar Patel Know more
20 June 2019

Make Indian education future-ready

Ranjan Banerjee Know more
29 April 2019

Of hubristic leaders and obedient company boards

Tulsi Jayakumar Know more
15 April 2019

How business schools can change the world

Deepa Krishnan Know more

 

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