Kalpish Ratna is the author of The Secret Life of Zika Virus (2017) and Synapse (2019)
The only way to evade diabetes is to stop evading responsibility for what we eat
13 January 2013What must we do to survive the persistent onslaught of dengue, malaria, chikungunya, swine flu…?
19 December 2012Naomi Wolf’s new book on the vagina is as misogynistic as they come
03 October 2012Signs of the Continental Drift are still visible in this densely populated part of Mumbai
17 May 2012In literature focused on insanity, the gaze seems to have shifted from the insane. The patient is no longer the victim; that status now belongs to the caregiver
08 May 2012Real life intrudes on fiction all the time. Kalpish Ratna indulge in some literary detection as they search for clues to the true character of Arthur Conan Doyle in Sherlock Holmes’ life and movements
25 March 2012Shoot on sight, and don’t think twice. That seems to be the credo of the Italians on board the Enrica Lexie, unchanged since the European intrusion into our waters in 1498
02 March 2012Whatever Jane Austen might think, PD James’ Death Comes to Pemberley ranks among the finest examples of literary mimicry, a genre that has good reason to exist
23 February 2012The abject surrender of medical intelligence in the age of gadgetry
17 February 2012A dispassionate history of sex and the powerful mythologies that have surrounded it down the ages
27 January 2012CELESTIAL 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