T.C.A. Sharad Raghavan

1 week ago | frontline.thehindu.com | T.C.A. Sharad Raghavan |Gowhar Geelani |Vaishna Roy |Nirupama Subramanian

It has been two weeks since the horrific attack on tourists in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir. India has confirmed that two of the attackers crossed the border from Pakistan. Indian security agencies have attributed the attack to a group named The Resistance Front, which India claims is a proxy of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based internationally designated terrorist group and believed to be supported by the Pakistan Army.

1 week ago | frontline.thehindu.com | Kavitha Rao |T.C.A. Sharad Raghavan |Ilangovan Rajasekaran |Vaishna Roy

Kavitha Rao’s Spies, Lies and Allies takes us back to the first half of the 20th century to relate the life stories of Virendranath Chattopadhyay or Chatto (1880–1937) and Narendranath Bhattacharya, or M.N. Roy (1887–1954). In this account, they lead “parallel lives”, in that they were contemporaries who did much the same thing for long periods of time although their lives rarely intersected.