For Ruskin Bond and Ganesh Saili, authors of the The Landour Cookbook, good food is comfort food
A recently published anthology of visual narratives of Partition revisits a haunting part of history with mixed results
As part of a monthly conversation series organised by Open at Smoke House Deli, William Dalrymple spoke to Pavan K Varma about writing for a foreign audience, romanticising the Raj, and much else . Excerpts:
Would Gandhi still be interesting if he’d never made it to India in 1914? Ramachandra Guha answers: ‘absolutely.’
Loaded with specs and features, this smartphone is up there with the best
Field geologist and Earth Sciences Professor Mike Searle shares his expertise on the shifting plates beneath our feet
Zia Mody’s 10 Judgements That Changed India offers a quick and succinct, if somewhat dry, insight into India’s judicial journey
This is a portable desktop—an all-in-one PC that doubles as a giant tablet
It beats its previous avatar in performance, feel and appearance
Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel The Lowland is oddly compelling; tiring, yet insisting on meaning