Parini Shroff’s debut novel is packed with useless husbands and spunky women. The author speaks about bringing comedy and tragedy together in an Indian village
19 May 2023Exploring Kolkata with Satyajit Ray’s films as guide
12 May 2023Sam Miller’s new book asserts that migration is at the heart of the human experience. The author in conversation with
31 March 2023Her feminism is beyond the straitjacket of woke sensibility
03 March 2023Oliver Craske’s biography reveals the many lives of Ravi Shankar by balancing his personal history with his musical mastery
28 August 2020Portrayals of psychiatrists on recent web shows use psychology to titillate or trivialise
17 July 2020It was the sociology of Hindi cinema that first decriminalised it
10 October 2018The new generation of self-help writers remains staunchly secular and subversive
19 September 2018CELESTIAL 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 2019Brahma 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
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