Between two Indian Independence days, last year and this year, I spent most of my time reading the letters and speeches of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel for my new book on…
In August 2016, the Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari wrote an essay for The Financial Times where he asked the question: if algorithms decide all our choices, what happens to…
A blanket statement does the round, often, that “Sardar Patel was willing to give away Kashmir”. This has no nuance, ignores all the unique complexities of a novel and difficult…
Author of nine books; Wilbur Award; Valley of Words Award; PSF Prize; Shortlisted Hayek Prize; World Economic Forum Young Global Leader; Oxford; Columbia; MCRC, Jamia; DU.
