Ajay Kamalakaran
Alexander Pushkin used quarantine to write a few of his greatest works
America was the New Jerusalem. It is still the Promised Land. That is not a complete picture but it is how the America we know began. From Henry James’ wilderness with ‘nothing’ in it, the US quickly grew to lead the world, economically, militarily and intellectually. A big country, a lot of things have happened in its brief timeline, and everything has mattered. Below is a list of 10 books, fiction and non-fiction, that span most of the country’s history as the ‘United’ States of America and explain how it was made—and continues to be remade
Manuscript hunter Rahul Sankrityayan was a nationalist at home in the world
Unlike his peers, the artist drew from a wellspring of poetry, literature, mathematics and philosophy
If drugs gave Guadalajara a bad name, then books have done more than redeeming it
In his new novel, Romesh Gunesekera writes of the ebb and flow of boyhood friendships. The novelist in conversation with Nandini Nair