“Looking back at a modern nation”
A young and inexperienced India that began its tryst with destiny as a sovereign, socialist, secular democratic republic has come a long way in the last sixty six years. The blue-eyed optimism of the...
View ArticleThe House With a Thousand Stories
Aruni is among those few, who practically objected the stereotypical portrayal of Northeast India as a ‘subject matter.’ These seven states, otherwise, are far too diversified to be approached with...
View ArticleThe Great Weaver From Kashmir
While surfing the net I stumbled upon the title of a book “The Great Weaver from Kashmir” by Halldor Laxness. A sheer curiosity, a result of sighting Kashmir in the title of a book that too by an...
View ArticleMaps for a mortal moon
The worst thing about being a human being is being a human being. ‘I wish I was bird’, as the railway clerk in Nissim Ezekiel’s poem says. But if I were, the worst thing about being a bird would be...
View ArticleA Residue of hope
The world of exile has spawned literature of various hues. Residue, the debut novel of academic, poet and author Nitasha Kaul is an important contribution to the literary works on exile, providing a...
View ArticleReview: Haider
Vishal Bhardwaj’s obsession with the Bard is common knowledge. After the seamless adaptations of Macbeth to the Mumbai underworld and Othello to the crass Uttar Pradesh heartland, Bhardwaj’s muse...
View Article‘The autumn of the patriarch’
Qissa – Directed by Anup Singh. Cast: Irrfan Khan, Tilottoma Shome, Tisca Chopra, Rasika Duggal The air was thinner in the defeated ‘homeland’ and it was difficult to tell whether the village was...
View ArticleNo regrets, only looking back
For those who are not aware: D N Ghosh has been an extraordinaire bureaucrat, banker, professor and corporate leader. Moreover, he is a known authority in banking and financial history, and accordingly...
View ArticleThe house of Travancore
Manu S. Pillai is aged twenty-six, when he has produced this most remarkable work on the extraordinary life and deeds of Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, the last and popularly unknown queen of the House of...
View Article“Fascist coup of the self-proclaimed world’s largest democracy is unfolding...
India’s Twitter friendly Home Minister Rajnath Singh, who has embarrassed the government several times recently through his over enthusiastic slip of tongues, be it in the Pathankot or the JNU issue,...
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