Kiran Nagarkar was watching movies to put off writing, but ended up writing a novel set in Bollywood
25 January 2012Maria Benedict, almost 11, was one of the 50,000 odd Indians who died of snakebite last year, but it was not the venom alone that killed her
07 January 2012A stage adaptation of a poem that retells a Mahabharata myth in a modern context
02 December 2011Hindustani classical singer Shubha Mudgal and her husband Aneesh Pradhan conceptualise a theatrical production on the struggles of musicians down the ages
02 September 2011The sculptor of Maharashtra’s most popular Ganesh effigy wants to patent the look, but can divinity be turned into property?
18 August 2011The Egyptian Revolution through the eyes of a 22-year-old who suddenly found herself part of an uprising that toppled a 30-year-old dictatorship
02 March 2011The artist takes inspiration from the workday scenes of zari workers and women before stoves in shanties
15 June 2009Last fortnight, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra was nominated for the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford. Here, he lambastes English literary sensibility in India
13 June 2009She had three names, and was famous in all of them. Poet Kamala Das, who wrote in Malayalam under the penname Madhavikutty, passed away on 31 May in Pune
11 June 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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