Cocktail crowds don’t trip over each other trying to grab a photo op with these writers. Celebs, they’re not. But away from the media glare, their books have found more readers than anyone imagined.
08 December 2009In artist Golak Khandual’s latest work, birds flee for their lives from ugly Delhi buildings. His visuals evoke a constant tussle between the city of old and the new
04 December 2009Mumbai-based Ma Passion is helping Jaipur’s miniature artists gain a firmer economic foothold
26 November 2009A growing group of harassed parents and their sons are rallying against the misuse of anti-dowry laws
25 November 2009Investment banker-turned-photographer Siddhartha Tawadey sees life through a Buddhist lens, where all is movement, all is transience
18 November 2009Away from the more famous ongoing cattle fest, Pushkar’s first literature festival left ample mental fodder to chew on.
04 November 2009By an uncanny coincidence, both Prabuddha Dasgupta and his former protégé Bharat Sikka focused their cameras on Goa for their latest photo exhibitions. But while Dasgupta discovers a community teetering in cultural limbo, Sikka finds a very rooted place.
30 October 2009Mammooty would have us refer to cinema made in India as ‘Indian cinema’. With his latest, Pazhaasi Raja, simultaneously releasing in five languages, he should certainly hope so.
27 October 2009A bad review is like a slap on the face, says William Dalrymple on the release of his latest book, Nine Lives
21 October 2009Like many of his colleagues, Tamil superstar Sarath Kumar juggles politics with acting. Now, he’s doing the polyglot thing with his first Malayalam film
14 October 2009Brahma 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
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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