This eccentric hotel in Kolkata brings its guests back again and again for the inimitable ‘Fairlawn experience’
15 October 2009Calcutta Clubs are quite simply in a class of their own. There’s a good reason for that. And also for why their charmed existence is destined to last forever
30 September 2009Arunachal Pradesh, soon due to go to the polls, is in development overdrive. China’s designs are no secret, but the government won’t risk any transfer of loyalty this side of the border.
24 September 2009Will history repeat itself? If India has learnt little from the Himalayan Blunder of 1962, it easily could—to our horror. China’s designs on the country are not benign.
17 September 2009Can Bengal’s poet-playwright Chief Minister pull out of his current depression in time for the looming Assembly elections?
17 September 2009Rajarhat New Town is billed as the face of modern Bengal. But it’s a façade for injustices that cancelling an odd infotech park cannot undo
09 September 2009After 53 years and countless laughs, the Charlie Chaplin of Kolkata took his final bow before the audience. Silently, as always
26 August 2009Tagore did not want his Visva Bharati university to become an Oxford or Cambridge. Its administrators today are ensuring that it never will
20 August 2009West Bengal’s Nadia district celebrates freedom from British rule on 15, 17 and 18 August
20 August 2009A Ramakrishna Mission school in West Bengal and its outrageous attitude towards its lady teachers
30 July 2009CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
10 April 2019Pratap 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 the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and a founding member of the governing council of India Foundation. He is the author of, among other titles, Partitioned Freedom and The Hindutva Paradigm