Aditi Sen is an Assistant Professor in History at Queen’s University, Canada
Smell has always played a critical role in dealing with sickness and cure
Reading ghost stories by British women writers
Hindi horror films are reimagining the macabre
From malicious mendicants to rats that rob dead bodies, Hindi horror comics are the perfect ghastly mix of the old and the new
CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
Pratap Bhanu Mehta is one of India’s most influential columnists and public intellectuals
Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is an MP and the author of, most recently, Gandhi’s Hinduism: The Struggle Against Jinnah’s IslamWhile
Ram Madhav is Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation
Makarand R Paranjape, director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, is the author of ‘JNU: Nationalism and India’s Uncivil Wars’. Views are personal.
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