It was meant to knock off 20 kilos in 20 weeks, but if the fiscal setback was a shock, so was the physical cost—gnawing hunger, mortifying hairfall and dry skin
Ishrat Jahan’s 2004 death has left her family in Mumbai without a sense of closure. Investigators have confirmed that she was murdered. But what she was doing on a highway in Gujarat with three shady characters, they have no idea
What Anna uttered, Parulekar wrote. So when Anna accused him of misusing the blog, he was stunned. Now, as he speaks to Haima Deshpande of Open, the writer has a singular objective: to clear his name and present the “whole truth”.
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle