Bookends: A charismatic colonel and his strange absence from fiction
By Vikas Datta
Think of the Middle East now and a representative image would be a vicious group with obscurantist goals to be obtained with...
Honored to receive Sahitya Akademi Award: Jerry Pinto
New Delhi--Author Jerry Pinto is delighted to receive the Sahitya Akademi Award 2016, and said he feels honoured that his work has been appreciated.
"I...
Books This Weekend: Of Sindhis, patriarchy, mythology and love
New Delhi--Take a close look at the Sindhi way of doing business; know the stories of women resisting the patriarchal rules of the society;...
Politicians and truth: A widening chasm?
By Vikas Datta
Title: Lies of the Land - A Brief History of Political Dishonesty; Author: Adam Macqueen; Publisher: Atlantic Books: Pages: 352; Price: Rs...
The Milk Lady of Bangalore
When journalist Shoba Narayan moved back home to India after living in Manhattan for many years, the last thing she expected to see in...
British Raj was complicated, its social history ignored in colonial bashing: Historian
By Saket Suman
New Delhi-- The history of the British Raj is much more complicated than what has been presented in various books, including the bestselling...
Books This Weekend: Of Titan’s success story and emotive human relationships
New Delhi-- Plunge into the history of Titan, once a casual idea and now a brand with a lion's share of the Indian watch market;...
Books This Weekend: Moving ahead in an age of disruption, of choices and more,...
New Delhi-- Learn how to 'pivot' forward in an age of disruption by coming out of your comfort zone; then, switch back to an era...
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...
Author Pankaj Giri on writing contemporary fiction as the ‘middle path’
New Delhi-- Sikkim-born author Pankaj Giri, who began his writing career with a book review blog and after several years of honing his writing...
