An ocean forever in the melting pot of history
By Vishnu Makhijani
New Delhi-- Its an ocean as vast as the sub-continent whose name it bears, encompassing Asia to the north, Australia to the...
Five books to read during Unlock
By Siddhi Jain
New Delhi-- Stories of powerful female leads, explored in a variety of contexts and evocative of a whole spectrum of emotions, make...
‘Santati’ an exhibition on the Mahatma, now immortalised in a book
By Vishnu Makhijani
New Delhi-- Hampi-based curator Lavina Baldota conceptualised eSantati four years ago as a tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his 151st birth anniversary....
A book that calls for identifying the enemies within our democracy
New Delhi-- "Enemies Within" is an upcoming book written by Vinit Goenka and published by Author Vine. Through this book, author Vinit Goenka has...
A quarter century on, Raja Rao’s biography of the Mahatma retains its freshness
By Vishnu Makhijani
New Delhi-- When Raja Rao's biography of Mahatma Gandhi was published in 1998, it was seen as a coming together of two...
Jairam Ramesh, Stephen Alter in Kamaladevi NIF Book Prize longlist
Bengaluru-- A biography of V.K. Krishna Menon by Jairam Ramesh, a scholarly study of the Himalayas by Stephen Alter and Katherine Ebans riveting account...
‘Soviet disinformation in Indian newspaper echoed for decades’
By Vishnu Makhijani
New Delhi-- The Soviets used an Indian newspaper in 1983 to spread disinformation that the AIDS virus had been invented by the...
‘Viruses a crown of thorns borne for centuries’
By Vishnu Makhijani
New Delhi-- It began as "panspermia", a hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe, that was coined by the 5th century BC...
Renowned Malayalam poet Akkitham Achuthan wins Jnanpith award
Palakkad (Kerala)-- Eminent Malayalam poet Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri was on Thursday conferred with the Jnanpith award at his residence 'Devayanam' by Kerala Culture Minister A.K....
India a Civilisational State re-architecting the Republic’
By Vishnu Makhijani
New Delhi-- India is a Civilisational State engaged in a "grand undertaking to re-architect" the Republic. It should make a "clean break"...
