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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

Book Review | Gaza: Shaped by external forces, own resilience

Book Review | Gaza: Shaped by external forces, own resilience

Jean-Pierre Filiu’s Gaza: A History (second edition), expertly translated by Tom King, is a sweeping historical...

22 Feb 2025 12:50 PM IST

Book Review | Stories that showcase Mumbai’s soul

Book Review | Stories that showcase Mumbai’s soul

Mumbai, Bombay, the Big Mango, is the city of the subcontinent with the greatest diversity of class, religions,...

22 Feb 2025 12:47 PM IST

Book Review | Colonialism, climate and other ‘wild fictions’

Book Review | Colonialism, climate and other ‘wild fictions’

It may be said of literary careers, if you don’t mind humouring a simplistic analogy from Hindustani classical...

22 Feb 2025 12:46 PM IST

Book Review | What is key to hope after Gaza

Book Review | What is key to hope after Gaza

Gaza has been the setting of a kind of savagery that the world has not witnessed in recent times. The October 2023...

15 Feb 2025 12:03 PM IST