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Bossy girl, innocent boy ride Luna off to sunset

Bossy girl, innocent boy ride Luna off to sunset

The language is simple, the narration cinematic, the translation competent, and if you follow along with your critical...

23 March 2025 9:26 AM IST

Book Review l Life of the mind, Ajita and Ajivikas

Book Review l Life of the mind, Ajita and Ajivikas

It is a skillful reconstruction of the lost legacy of the fifth century atheist thinker, Ajita.

23 March 2025 9:17 AM IST

Book Review | Soumitra: Many worlds of one life

Book Review | Soumitra: Many worlds of one life

A word about Sharmila Tagore’s Foreword. It is warm, genuine, heartfelt. Much like the biography.

23 March 2025 9:11 AM IST

Book Review | India’s Paralympic queen tells her story

Book Review | India’s Paralympic queen tells her story

In 1983 American Art Berg suffered a major head concussion and a broken neck in a car accident and ended up...

15 March 2025 12:14 PM IST

Book Review | Quirky epic set in WW2 Calcutta

Book Review | Quirky epic set in WW2 Calcutta

On page 450, exactly halfway through Great Eastern Hotel, Ruchir Joshi’s 900-page behemoth of a historical novel,...

15 March 2025 12:05 PM IST

Book Review | India doing well to avoid Western cues on diplomacy

Book Review | India doing well to avoid Western cues on diplomacy

In the old days a diplomat was known as a plenipotentiary, the very term suggesting gravity and pomposity. Much of...

15 March 2025 11:56 AM IST

Ghee Bowman | Daring escape of Indian PoWs from German hands

Ghee Bowman | Daring escape of Indian PoWs from German hands

At 8 am at the War Office, the building opposite Horseguards, where the Household Cavalry stands vigil, a telegram...

8 March 2025 8:12 PM IST

Sucheta Dasgupta | India’s unsung green heroes

Sucheta Dasgupta | India’s unsung green heroes

Take economist-turned-sociologist Radhakamal Mukerjee, b. 1881), for instance. In 1922, he formally advocated the...

8 March 2025 7:53 PM IST

Pradeep S. Mehta | Behind-scenes look at India’s G-20 presidency

Pradeep S. Mehta | Behind-scenes look at India’s G-20 presidency

India has been a strong supporter of the multilateral way, and Prime Minister Modi had advised Amitabh Kant, India’s...

8 March 2025 7:42 PM IST

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | An immigrant’s hope manifesto

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | An immigrant’s hope manifesto

Pope Francis says that in the beginning he was opposed to Peronism but after he saw the concern shown for the poor, he...

1 March 2025 5:58 PM IST

Rupa Gulab | Gen. Z love story too polished to push boundaries

Rupa Gulab | Gen. Z love story too polished to push boundaries

In true romance fiction form, there is a series of silly little misunderstandings before they become a couple

1 March 2025 5:54 PM IST

Ankit Rath | A forthright history of political Hinduism

Ankit Rath | A forthright history of political Hinduism

To briefly recount the history of the term for our purposes, the term “Hindu” originates from the Sanskrit word...

1 March 2025 5:39 PM IST