The Great Desi Boorist
Remember? How we scratched our names on Taj? Or was it Ajanta?
03 May 2018
Roma Revividus
The final volume of the trilogy on Cicero’s life is a visceral portrayal of the long-lost Roman Empire
03 February 2016
Lisbeth Salander and Literary Vampirism
Stieg Larsson gets a competent inheritor but the twice-told tale of the sequel should not lead to The Girl Who Created a Storm in a Teacup
16 September 2015
Kathmandu, Mon Amour
A compelling love song for the author’s adoptive home, a city of multiple paradoxes
11 September 2014
Requiem for Riverdale
What the death of Archibald Andrews says about the imperative of tolerance
30 July 2014
Who gave slang a bad name?
The rich and complex history of slang demonstrates how we have always felt the need to express all that is raw, emotive and visceral through a pontaneous counter-language
07 May 2014
May the Joke Always Be on Us
How the politically incorrect ethnic joke keeps us together in the great fraternity of laughter
04 April 2014
Authors
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 the author of several books, including Doolally Sahib and the Black Zamindar: Racism and Revenge in the British Raj
Ram Madhav is a member of the National Executive of RSS and Member, Board of Governors, India Foundation
Makarand R Paranjape is professor of English at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Views are personal.
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