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Chandrahas Choudhury

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ARTICLES BY CHANDRAHAS CHOUDHURY

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Dialogue in an ancient Chinese royal kitchen

11 min read . 20 Apr 2019

Photo: iStockphoto

Chandrahas Choudhury is lost in the clouds

9 min read . 05 Jan 2018

Muslim refugees atop a train leaving New Delhi for Pakistan. Photo: AP

The many worlds and wonders of Indian history

5 min read . 26 Dec 2017

Brasilia. Photo: iStockphoto

Abhay Kumar: The sage Indian of Brasilia

6 min read . 21 Oct 2017

Illustration: Jayachandran/Mint.

A year of reading Adam Smith

12 min read . 05 May 2017

Shakti Maira with a wood sculpture in his studio. Photos: Ramesh Pathania/Mint.

Shakti Maira: The antidote to discontent

6 min read . 25 Feb 2017

The Kandha tribals of Odisha. Photo: Reinhard Krause/Reuters

Book review: The Dynasty Of The Immortals by Gopinath Mohanty

5 min read . 07 Oct 2016

Free-marketeers have long complained that Narega is a boondoggle, eating up 1% of GDP without contributing meaningfully to economic growth. Photo: Mint

For women, India’s workfare programme works

3 min read . 05 Apr 2016

Photo: Bloomberg

Delhi briefly restores sanity to streets

4 min read . 18 Jan 2016

A class in progress in Lahore, Punjab, in 1933. Photo: Getty Images

A man adrift in Jalandhar

5 min read . 19 Dec 2015

Orhan Pamuk at his home in Istanbul. Photo: Ozan Kose/AFP

Book Review: A Strangeness In My Mind

6 min read . 14 Nov 2015

When it comes to his engagement with other fundamental Indian principles, Narendra Modi’s personal and intellectual limitations have been badly exposed. Photo: Bloomberg

Narendra Modi proves too old for India

5 min read . 25 May 2015

As many wits have remarked, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is well-named: The emphasis falls on the word “control.” Photo: HT

The cutthroat politics of Indian cricket

4 min read . 19 Mar 2015

Narendra Modi (left) has to find some middle path that enables him to set down his own roots and his own authority in the troubled state, else he join the list of prime ministers who have made no headway in Kashmir. Photo: PTI (PTI)

Narendra Modi facing a domestic crisis in Kashmir

5 min read . 13 Mar 2015

British filmmaker Leslee Udwin (Right) during a during a press conference. Photo: AFP (AFP)

Documentary ‘India’s daughter’ reveals sharp split in India

4 min read . 10 Mar 2015

This weekend, finance minister Arun Jaitley will present to parliament the budget for the year 2015-16: an exercise in accounting and planning, for an economic unit that encompasses one-fifth of mankind. Photo: AP (AP)

What India’s latest budget won’t tell you

4 min read . 27 Feb 2015

A file photo of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Photo: Bloomberg

Narendra Modi’s convenient new religious tolerance

4 min read . 20 Feb 2015

The defeat was a personal setback for Narendra Modi, who in last May’s national elections seized power with a similarly electrifying campaign and decisive victory. Photo: Bloomberg

India gives Narendra Modi his first taste of defeat

4 min read . 12 Feb 2015

Perhaps a sense of this mini-crisis—not the Congress’s woes, but the increasing lopsidedness of political power in India—explains why so many voters around the country are so keenly interested in this weekend’s elections in New Delhi. Photo: HT

Indian voters make room for upstarts

5 min read . 06 Feb 2015

Captain Anand Bodas, a retired pilot invited to speak at the Indian Science Congress as part of a panel on “Ancient Sciences through Sanskrit,” was certain that jumbo airplanes much larger than those of the present day had once trawled the Indian skies. Photo: AFP

Prehistoric airplanes and other Indian flights of fancy

5 min read . 20 Jan 2015

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