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Prasenjit Chowdhury

Prasenjit Chowdhury

Articles by Prasenjit Chowdhury

Review: Consumerism in World History by Peter N Stearns

The Khan El-Khalili Bazaar in Cairo, Egypt. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 23, 2026 11:10 IST

Review: The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra

Buildings destroyed by the Israeli military in the Shijaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City. (AP)

Updated on Nov 7, 2025 15:59 IST

Review: The Nobel Prize and the Formation of Contemporary World Literature

The Stockholm Concert Hall, where the award ceremony for the Nobel Prize for Literature is held each year. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jun 7, 2025 24:56 IST

Review: The Politics of Modern Indian Language Literature by MK Raghavendra

Much like the panel on an Indian currency note, many languages have coexisted on the subcontinent. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Jan 10, 2025 15:44 IST

Review: India in the Second World War: An Emotional History by Diya Gupta

The Rimini Gurkha War Cemetery and the Second World War Indian Forces Memorial erected in Italy to officers and men of the Indian Army. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Mar 29, 2024 13:42 IST

Review: The Language of Trees by Katie Holten

Amaltas trees in bloom. (Keshav Singh/Hindustan Times)

Updated on Nov 11, 2023 01:06 IST

Review: The Soviet Century by Karl Schlögel

Vladimir Lenin, founding head of the government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924. (ismailyildiz/Shutterstock)

Updated on Jul 28, 2023 12:13 IST

Review: Connected History: Essays and Arguments by Sanjay Subrahmanyam

A painting of Akbar conversing with Jahangir. Historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam notes that the Mughal empire left a powerful cultural and institutional legacy of cohesion, “which we tend to neglect today because of Hindu right-wing rhetoric”. (HT Photo)

Updated on Apr 21, 2023 12:05 IST

Review: The Retrospective Raj: Medicine, Literature and History After Empire by Sam Goodman

British officials with a group of Indian villagers at Hapur in UP on 7 March 1937. (HT Photo)

Updated on Dec 9, 2022 12:37 IST

Review: Read Dangerously; The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi

Azar Nafisi’s book encourages individuals to ask hitherto unasked questions despite the costs. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Sep 8, 2022 13:25 IST

Review: America’s Wars by Thomas H Henriksen

Aerial view of destroyed Iraqi vehicles beside Highway 80 west of Kuwait City. The ‘Highway of Death ‘ was bombed by coalition forces led by the United States on February 27-28, 1991. (Shutterstock)

Updated on May 26, 2022 10:06 IST

On flattery and merit in politics

Though it has blown the Congress away, the cult of Modi is built around it. Other political parties might draw a lesson.

Updated on May 19, 2022 09:43 IST

Review: Dostoevsky in Love: An Intimate Life by Alex Christofi

Alex Christofi reconstructs the memoir Dostoevsky might have written. (Shutterstock)

Updated on Mar 31, 2022 09:39 IST

English can be the ambassador for ‘bhasa’ writers

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Updated on Oct 5, 2014 17:03 IST

Swimming upstream on water availability

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Updated on Jul 17, 2014 17:57 IST

Congress was always adept at political polarisation

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Updated on Apr 17, 2014 16:43 IST

First look North-East, then Look East

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Updated on Mar 3, 2014 05:24 IST

Deconstructing the mask of anarchy

Updated on Feb 5, 2014 18:25 IST

The tragic hero in a Greek tragedy

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Updated on Jan 16, 2014 19:06 IST

You can’t govern India with 19th century laws

Updated on Dec 19, 2013 17:00 IST

Nowadays everything is brilliant, awesome, mind-blowing...

Updated on Nov 8, 2013 16:13 IST

Right to reject insufficient to register protest

Updated on Oct 16, 2013 20:09 IST

Muzaffarnagar was waiting to happen

Updated on Sep 18, 2013 21:43 IST

Both a prince and a pauper

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Updated on Aug 27, 2013 16:30 IST

Battered and bruised for democracy

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Updated on Aug 6, 2013 19:10 IST

Where rape is a conspiracy

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Updated on Jun 20, 2013 17:40 IST

Inside the offender’s head

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Updated on May 2, 2013 17:57 IST

No country for old men

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Updated on Oct 8, 2012 16:39 IST

Shackled to the vote-bank

Updated on May 10, 2012 17:03 IST

The shame of it all

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Updated on Mar 13, 2012 17:39 IST

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