Taliban govt unlikely to survive: William Dalrymple

Describing the new Afghanistan government as “spectacularly uninclusive” even within the Taliban frame, author-historian William Dalrymple says the "all-male old guard......

Hartosh-Dalrymple spat: Reading between the lines

"The colonial hangover afflicts not us, but them." So says Will Heaven of the UK Telegraph, reflecting on the spat between Hartosh Singh Bal and William Dalrymple.For a quick recap, Bal wrote a......

Writer Willam Dalrymple: 'I don't believe Muslims are a problem and Islam a threat'

'When Sikhs were killed in the Afghan-Sikh war in 1837, the Afridis used to bury their heads like flowerpots in the ground,' writer and popular historian William Dalrymple tells Rediff.com's Syed......

Writer Willam Dalrymple: 'I don't believe Muslims are a problem and Islam a threat'

'When Sikhs were killed in the Afghan-Sikh war in 1837, the Afridis used to bury their heads like flowerpots in the ground,' writer and popular historian William Dalrymple tells Rediff.com's Syed......