So-called experts behind all problems, don’t trust them: Uncertainty, randomness guru

By Vikas Datta Jaipur-- People would be better of trusting experts like dentists and plumbers, and even rickshaw-pullers rather than economists or bureaucrats, whose incompetence...

Jaipur literature festival is open to all voices, Left and Right: Producer Sanjoy Roy

By Saket Suman New Delhi-- Dubbed as one of India's greatest such shows, the journey of the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) has been marked by...

India at 70, Women and Marginalised Voices among themes for Jaipur Literature Festival

New Delhi-- The ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival 2017 will touch upon a multitude of ideas and themes, its organisers announced here. These include 'Freedom to...

Travel writing may change, but will never die

By Vikas Datta JAIPUR-- Its demise was predicted as far as back as the 1930s but it endured, and even in our day, despite the...

Correct misconceptions about Partition to allow healing

By Vikas Datta JAIPUR-- Much of the toxic memories and legacies around Partition in 1947, which continue to create bad blood even seven decades later...

Cities tell the tale of an empire: British Historian

By Vikas Datta JAIPUR--Less than half a dozen cities, almost all ports, of the British Empire are enough to give a vivid idea of character,...

Writers brought out horrors of Partition more than historians

By Vikas Datta JAIPUR-- Writers, like Saadat Hasan Manto, brought out the horrors of Partition much more vividly than historians, but the need now is...

Modi’s silence on key issues baffling: Tharoor

JAIPUR-- The silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on key issues of communal tension and violence is baffling for a leader who is hailed...

The Peace to End All Peace: Terrifying rise of ethnic nationalism after WW-I

By Vikas Datta JAIPUR--Nationalism got a fillip in the aftermath of World War I as several empires disintegrated and new nations were born, but an...

The Frontline Club: Strange motivations of war journalists

By Vikas Datta JAIPUR-- It is seen as a glamourous branch of journalism which has drawn the most famous writers and politicians - Arthur Conan...
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