Gyan
Essays et al
1. Is India a Flailing State? Detours on the Four Lane Highway to Modernisation: Lant Pritchett (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) on what ails India and how it compares with China.
2. The Invention of Pakistan: How the British Raj Sundered: Karl E. Meyer provides a good account of the forces involved in the partition of the Indian subcontinent with new evidence on some contested issues like the Radcliffe line.
3. Political Parties as Victims of Populism and Electoral Compulsions: A Quest for Systemic Solutions: Vinay Sahasrabuddhe identifies the deficiencies of India’s political culture and charts a course forward.
4. Alice in Blunderland: Arun Shourie’s seminal interview to Shekhar Gupta on the state of affairs in the BJP.
5. Acid Dreams on Dharma Nights: A critical profile of Arun Shourie in Tehelka.
6. The Sarkari Musalman: Saba Naqvi highlights the vicissitudes of the secular experiment in India.
7. Capital Gains: An essay on Delhi by Rana Dasgupta in Granta Summer 2009.
8. Masters in Illiberal Arts: Shekhar Gupta laments the glaring intellectual deficit in the liberal arts and social sciences in India.
9. The Month We Lost Dara: Ashok Malik on the India that might have been.
10. Pakistan’s Westward Drift: Pervez Hoodbhoy on Pakistan exchanging her Subcontinental identity for an Arab one.