Aditya Mukherjee writes a wide-ranging column that moves between politics, culture, and the ways power presents itself in both. He has run magazines and knows how to make serious subjects read quickly without flattening them.
Recent work
Madurai: Where Civilisation Never Stopped Being Alive
Madurai is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, a place where the Sangam period's literary traditions, Dravidian temple architecture, and the rhythms of daily devotion exist not as preserved relics but as breathing, practised reality. The Sri Meenakshi-Sundareswarar Temple anchors the city's spiritual identity, while the Thirumalai Nayak Palace speaks to its regal and multicultural past. To visit Madurai is to step inside India's civilisational story — not to observe it from the outside.