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Mor Pankh in the land of the pure

Mor Pankh in the land of the pure

In the chaos that prevails around us, the most authentic hope comes from mystics whose poetry and philosophy combines...

23 April 2016 10:40 PM IST

India’s War: The Making of Modern South Asia, 1939 to 1945 by Srinath Raghavan Penguin Random House pp: 550, Rs 699.

Call of duty: The war that made a country

India’s fight against the axis and the days before, and after, the great second war.

20 April 2016 2:43 AM IST

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400 years on, Cervantes still enchants

He is best known for Don Quixote, but the eventful life of Spain’s revered author Miguel de Cervantes was just as...

20 April 2016 1:25 AM IST

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India gets richer

The apartment building in which I live is at the very end of Marine Drive. At that point this most magnificent of...

20 April 2016 1:22 AM IST

Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court By Audrey Truschke Penguin pp. 336, Rs 699

Sanskrit shone at Mughal court

It is a pleasure to recognise at the very outset that Audrey Truschke’s Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the...

20 April 2016 1:17 AM IST

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You can’t time the gush of ideas: Mukul Kumar

Mukul Kumar, an Indian railway traffic officer presently working with the ministry of railways, is as passionate about...

19 April 2016 10:16 PM IST

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Reimagining an epic

Gautam Chikermane’s Tunnel of Varanavat is an ambitious retelling of the Mahabharatha, through the eyes of a...

19 April 2016 10:12 PM IST

Cauliflower, the new diet God

Cauliflower, the new diet God

When I picked up a copy of The Cauliflower Diet by Radha Thomas, it was with some wariness. Not one more dieting book, I...

16 April 2016 9:13 PM IST

Cauliflower, the new diet God

Cauliflower, the new diet God

When I picked up a copy of The Cauliflower Diet by Radha Thomas, it was with some wariness. Not one more dieting book, I...

16 April 2016 9:11 PM IST

Writer couple Anam Zakaria and Haroon Khalid (above). The mosque of Waris Shah at Malka Hans.

A journey into Pakistan’s syncretic past

In December 2015, a charming young couple from Pakistan, Haroon Khalid and his wife Anam Zakaria, came to India to...

13 April 2016 4:33 AM IST

The business of thrilling

Ashwin Sanghi’s fifth book The Sialkot Saga is a thriller that jumps from one setting to another within the same...

12 April 2016 11:37 PM IST

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It is only through reading that one truly grows: Syed Habeeb

When Syed Habeeb, motivational speaker and leadership coach of international repute, decided to pen down his first...

12 April 2016 10:50 PM IST