William Dalrymple

Essays

Bahadur Shah Zafar: The Last Mughal who was also the Last Great Traitor

Bahadur Shah Zafar: The Last Mughal who was also the Last Great Traitor

The story of how Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last Mughal, intrigued with the British to sabotage the First War of Indian Independence in 1857

A Festival of the Politically Correct Left-Liberal Sissies: The Jaipur Denouement

A Festival of the Politically Correct Left-Liberal Sissies: The Jaipur Denouement

The Jaipur Literature Festival is the festival of political correctness driven and enforced by the Left-Liberal ideology

Jaipur Literature Festival as the Original Watering Hole of Breaking India Forces: Every Sepoy’s Ambition

Jaipur Literature Festival as the Original Watering Hole of Breaking India Forces: Every Sepoy’s Ambition

A critique of the Jaipur Literature Festival as a political and ideological event comprising various breaking India forces

Hindus Still Don’t Own the Narrative about themselves

Hindus Still Don’t Own the Narrative about themselves

This essay is more in the nature of an attempt. To examine the socio-political and cultural narrative about India that was set in motion roughly around the colonial period. This narrative continues to remain profoundly Adharmic. More dangerously, the Hindus don’t own this narrative about themselves. Even worse,

The Thriving Colonial Raj in India in Three Random Books

The Thriving Colonial Raj in India in Three Random Books

Here is a brief list before we begin. * Heartrending stories of utter destitution inside a slum and/or on the pavements? Check. * Soul crushing tales of a poor AIDS or terminally-ill patient rotting away in a Government hospital? Check. * Tales of police brutality and bureaucratic corruption endured by a