The East India Company Can’t Be Wished Away
The East India Company can’t be wished away More than one hundred years after its demise, the ghosts of the East India Company – the pioneering corporation that morphed into …
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1857 Atrocities Like War Crimes
1857 Darkest Moment In British Imperial History Author William Dalrymple is in love with India and its capital Delhi — his adopted home for many years and the principle theatre …
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Being a Muslim writer in times of conflict: Violence saddens me
To be a writer in a nation scarred by relentless ethnic violence and a Muslim in a post-9/11 world distorted by mindless stereotyping and hate-mongering takes a lot of courage …
Read MoreAnything Indian Has A Great Chance Of Success
Anything Indian has a Great Chance of Success Berenice Ellena, the French clothes and costume designer who flits between Paris, Venice, New Delhi and Srinagar, has authored a splendid book …
Read MoreTaj Was A Symbol Of Imperial Power
Taj was a symbol of imperial power The Taj Mahal was more than a monument of conjugal love built by Shah Jahan in memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal; …
Read MoreStraddling Two Worlds, Two Cultures
Anita Rau Badami: ‘Straddling Two Worlds, Two Cultures’ Indo-Canadian writer Anita Rau Badami’s new novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call tells the intertwined stories of three women right from …
Read MoreRajmohan Gandhi
Nothing But The Whole Truth About Gandhi Rajmohan Gandhi, author, academic and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, has written a new biography of Mahatma Gandhi that sifts myths and legends from …
Read MoreI Would Go Insane If I Didn’t Write
Indian-American author Abha Dawesar is a driven writer. Writing is a mental necessity for her, a constant wrestle with words and meanings to keep her daemons from running away with …
Read MoreIndia Can Build Bridges. China Can’t
China may be rising, but it is India which is uniquely poised to play a bridge-building role in an Asian century, says Kishore Mahbubani, Singapore’s former envoy to the UN …
Read MoreIndians Are Erotic People, But Sexually Repressed
Psychoanalyst and novelist Sudhir Kakar has a genius for digging deep into the depths of the human psyche and diving back with rare gems of insights into the complex grammar …
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