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Palash Krishna Mehrotra

The writer is the author of The Butterfly Generation: A Personal Journey into the Passions and Follies of India’s Technicolor Youth, and the editor of House Spirit: Drinking in India

Cinema
View from Above

The risky, rarefied world of a rooftopper couple

04 September 2024
Books
The Rooster’s Revenge

An absurdly comic and uncannily contemporary novel from Kerala

25 September 2020
City and Village
Books
City and Village

Short stories where the believable and unbelievable co-exist

13 December 2019
Bhaskar Hazarika: The Hunger Games
Cinema
Bhaskar Hazarika: The Hunger Games

In the sleeper hit indie film Aamis, members of a club catch and cook their own fresh meat. The director Bhaskar Hazarika tells Palash Krishna Mehrotra how he got the elements of love and horror just right

13 December 2019
One Hell of a Storyteller
Books
One Hell of a Storyteller

Unni R, a master of the short story form, remains committed to an approximate realism

27 September 2019
Books
Passion Plays

Love is a dish best served cold

26 July 2019
THE TRAVEL ISSUE 2019
Ziro Valley: Bisons and Beers

The Ziro Festival in Arunachal Pradesh where mainland meets mainland

28 June 2019
Saikat Majumdar
Books
The Politics of Desire

A seductive narrative of sex and religion

24 April 2019
Books-Last-light
Books
Last Light

In Updike’s final collection of stories, published posthumously, death is a constant presence and it seems to have played an active role in his imagination

28 July 2009
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Books
Melancholy’s Children

In his first collection of short stories, Kazuo Ishiguro shows us that this form is capable of handling the biggest of themes

29 June 2009

Authors

Brahma Chellaney

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

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

Ram Madhav is president, India Foundation, and is with BJP

Makarand R Paranjape

Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.

TCA Raghavan

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

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