Shylashri Shankar is the author of Turmeric Nation - A Passage Through India's Tastes
Food novelty, like fashion, is a fickle creature
Four storytellers redeem the modern whodunnit by defying the familiar props of the genre
What the food habits of childhood can do to our life
How Arthur Conan Doyle found the perfect scientific detective
Food as a tool of identitarian politics
What our ancestors ate continues to influence our palate
A report from God’s kitchen explains how Lord Venkateshwara is fed
Who will choose the winner in vegetables versus meat?
In pursuit of the perfect body and mind, we forget to feed the soul
A retro coffee house in Chennai as a cultural statement
CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…
Pratap 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
Makarand R Paranjape is an author and columnist. Views are personal.
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