The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire

Pratinav Anil, a historian from Bombay, is unlikely to succumb to the beguilement of Britain’s indolent aristocracy.

Pratinav Anil

Plummeting Upstairs: On Joseph Sassoon's “The Sassoons”

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to." — Molly Ivins

Politics

"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." — George Bernard Shaw

History

Arvind Rajagopal teaches at New York University and is author of, among other works, the prize-winning Politics After Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India.&nbsp;His latest book, on a global history of media theory, is under contract with Duke University Press.

Arvind Rajagopal

Letter to the Editor: Pratinav Anil Responds to Arvind Rajagopal

"For a long time now I haven't been I."
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Around the World

Pratinav Anil, a historian from Bombay, is unlikely to succumb to the beguilement of Britain’s indolent aristocracy.