Being quarantined is, at its very benign, a ‘social fact’ in the life of the Bharatiya aurat
31 May 2020 12:30 AM
A conversation with a working class hero and a man of many adventures
14 Mar 2020 11:14 PM
Dean went on to establish the Mahomed Baths in London and came to be known as the “shampooing surgeon”.
14 Feb 2020 2:53 AM
You want to but can’t live in the past, so you live with a pain that eats at you constantly.
09 Feb 2020 8:35 AM
Oraganiser and author William Darlymple draws analogy between East India Company and current British govt.
31 Jan 2020 1:17 AM
13th edition of the 5-day Jaipur Literature Festival kicks off.
31 Jan 2020 1:12 AM
Talking about poetry is like taking a hot bath in a tub with your clothes on, says poet-writer Jeet Thayil.
28 Jan 2020 4:38 AM
My new book has three short stories and I had pretty good plans about the stories.
26 Jan 2020 3:10 AM
JLF this year has also been witness to the rise of the new bilingual Indian writer in the persons of Upadhyay, Kunal Basu and Aaruni Kashyap.
26 Jan 2020 2:07 AM
A “book of words” by him, with anecdotes attached to each of them, will be published by Penguin sometime in the first half of this year.
25 Jan 2020 6:28 AM
In the Indian Penal Code, the punishment for rape is now 10 years of imprisonment, even as it is a criminal offence and not a civil wrong
20 Dec 2019 5:52 AM
The death penalty has no place in a civilised society. A civilised society does not exact revenge on a convict, says Sunil Gupta.
15 Dec 2019 6:44 AM
The festival began with the launch of Namita’s novel, Jaipur Journals.
13 Dec 2019 2:17 AM
The Chinese government’s role today is split between public funding of social insurance for curative services and provisioning of private healthcare.
25 Nov 2019 6:43 AM
The nature of the bureaucratic beast is a bit against the spirit of doing something long term.
08 Nov 2019 1:45 AM
Sophie shares with Sucheta Dasgupta how the activity of shopping has changed in the West over the past two decades.
20 Oct 2019 3:43 AM
The legend of Gog and Magog and the Iron Gates built to keep them away from human civilisation has also been interpolated in the Alexander romances.
04 Oct 2019 2:53 AM
Nationwide, the participation at the 146 venues where the march was organised was between 10,000 and 20,000.
05 Apr 2019 2:20 AM
It will begin from Mandi House at 11 am and culminate at Jantar Mantar.
03 Apr 2019 2:07 AM
It is both no-nonsense and entertaining, and put together with a great deal of care and humour.
31 Mar 2019 4:49 AM