Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay led with his pen, giving us a revulsion we sorely needed.
08 June 2010Douglas Adams’ intergalactic legacy lives on, celebrated every 25 May.
02 June 2010That is not a mere question. It is an entry to a surreal new world of language.
26 May 2010To most of us, Hayek means Salma. But the ideas of Nobel Prize-winning economist-philosopher Friedrich August von Hayek are perhaps more relevant today, to the world and to India, than ever before
21 May 2010Collecting ‘friends’ on Facebook with whom we have nothing left to share.
18 May 2010His golden rule is ‘Never lose money’. He also said it takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. Has he finally ruined his own?
13 May 2010Unfinished last works by famous authors have always intrigued readers. Just as fascinating is Herge’s last Tintin, where Haddock loses his taste for whisky and the pages turn blank even as Tintin faces inevitable death.
12 May 2010If you’re feeling low, nothing works better than Monty Python skits on YouTube.
05 May 2010Remembering him as just a poet would be doing him a profound injustice.
28 April 2010Brahma 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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