Kapil Komireddi

My interview with Marco Rubio, the next US Secretary of State

https://thecritic.co.uk/us-senator-marco-rubio-says-business-as-usual-with-beijing-is-not-an-option/

My interview with Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili. I did not write the headline.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10/08/salome-zourabichvili-georgia-must-choose-europe/

"Why India will not ditch Russia"
My piece in UnHerd explains


https://unherd.com/newsroom/india-hasnt-chosen-ukraine-over-russia/

My dispatch from Moldova in the Daily Telegraph


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/15/moldova-eu-lgbt-igor-dodon-maia-sandu/

“In the United States, Rahul Gandhi did more than demonstrate that he is Modi’s saviour. He reminded us once again that he—and his family—are a plague on India”

My piece

https://theprint.in/opinion/rahul-gandhi-is-hopelessly-delusional-his-remark-on-sikhs-proves-it/2264104/

Salome Zourabichvili, the president of Georgia, tells me her country’s “European future” is imperilled.

My essay in the SUNDAY TIMES on Bangladesh.

Zainab Badawi discusses my essay in the Sunday Times on the BBC.

Link to the article

https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/article/voters-ended-modis-new-india-the-true-surprise-is-that-he-survived-bz005vb2w

My essay in the Sunday Times (of London) on how Modi lost the plot.

https://www.thetimes.com/world/asia/article/voters-ended-modis-new-india-the-true-surprise-is-that-he-survived-bz005vb2w

My essay in the New Yorker on India, my late father, and his faith in the redeeming power of democracy.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/my-fathers-fate-and-indias

On this day in 1915, Ottoman Turkey began enforcing a policy of mass expulsion and slaughter of Armenians. It began with the detention of the most eminent members of Istanbul’s Armenian community, who were banished to distant places before being killed. In the months that followed, this savage exercise—detention, deportation, murder—was replicated against Armenian communities elsewhere in the empire.

In 1914, Turkey was home to two million Armenians. Four years later, fewer than 200,000 remained. In the intervening period, at least 1.5 million Armenians were slaughtered.

There is an effort underway, in Armenia of all places, to downplay the enormity of Turkey's crime and to drop the use of the word "genocide", which was in fact coined by the Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944 to convey the scale of the concerted liquidation of Armenians by Turkey. This is as shameful as it is sad. It endorses the denial of crimes that inspired Hitler's industrialised pogrom of European Jewry. We must never forget.

I explain to America’s National Public Radio (NPR) why Narendra Modi is a bit like Sacha Baron Cohen in The Dictator


https://one.npr.org/i/1245972791:1245972792

I was on Reaction Podcast 🇬🇧 to discuss the Indian elections and had this advice for the leadership of the Congress Party

Listen to the full show here:

https://audioboom.com/posts/8492545-kapil-komireddi-on-the-history-of-modern-india-narendra-modi-and-the-upcoming-elections

My long essay in Canada’s Globe and Mail on what Modi has done to India


https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-narendra-modis-pretensions-of-godhood-endanger-what-is-left-of-indias/

My book has just been published in an expanded and updated paperback edition in the U.K.

You can get your copy here

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Malevolent-Republic-Short-History-India/dp/1911723286/

With Akie Abe, the formidable wife of Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest serving prime minster, at their family’s home in Tokyo. I was invited to pray at their family’s altar.

Abe-san, killed by an assassin’s bullet in 2022, was a man I admired immensely and considered the Light of Asia. This was my tribute to him.

https://thecritic.co.uk/the-prime-minister-who-restored-japan/

Irony is hanged, drawn, quartered.

Rory Stewart on my book.

Very sorry to learn of the passing of Jirair Avanian, the great Armenian restaurateur behind Yerevan’s Dolmama. He was a kind and good man who left a flourishing art business in Manhattan to answer the call of his homeland. When I first met him, he took the trouble to cook vegetarian food for me.

I wrote about him in the Spectator



https://thespectator.com/life/say-yes-to-yerevan/