A no holds barred interview could cost him his friendship, actor John K had never imagined. Riding high on the success of his first major film, he lets his ego get the better of him. The fallout shatters the life...
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This translation by Tejwant Gill succeeds in bringing her poetic brilliance to a wider audience
The book is an attempt to piece together the early rise of the sport in India that mostly flourished due to the love of many individuals
The reader can see why her stories, despite their remarkable endings, feel strangely inexhaustible
What explains its popularity? Is there a history to the themes of violence, heroism and martyrdom in the songs?
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Pioneering Malayalam novelist CV Raman Pillai’s first novel, ‘Marthandavarma’, was published in 1891 to a warm and enthusiastic reception. The novel has remained in print ever since and continues to be enjoyed by readers, beyond Kerala. It tells the story...
The author says public sector privatisation policy, ‘Strategic Disinvestment Policy (SDP) 2021’ is a “watershed moment”
The absorbing accounts of the Europeans based in Calcutta put into shade the cruelness of colonialism
The book manages to pull back the shroud of mystery around a militant organisation with the depth and precision
The novel is a familiar stance in romance
One of the only two women in the history of IIM-Ahmedabad to receive a gold medal, Devina Mehra distills three decades of analysis of the fundamentals of investing for those yet to take the first step into the scene, as...
Eschewing the usual biographical guardrails of timelines, author Rachna Singh narrates the conversations she had with the photographer and her observations and ruminations in 10 chapters
Artworks produced at Nalanda had features of both Mathura and Sarnath with some local touch, Abhay K writes in ‘Nalanda: How It Changed the World’
They’ve run motels in America, fought apartheid in South Africa, sold opium to China and financed the Indian National Army. They are the richest yet their poor clean drains. Hospitable yet calculating, worldly-wise while claiming to be spiritual. They build...
‘The Elephant Book’ by Sowmya Rajendran is a captivating exploration of the profound relationship between humans and elephants
Gyan Chaturvedi’s mastery over absurd situations sets the tone — where was the govt when the Bazaar was taking over everything?
‘The Grudges of Gajanan Godbole’ by Salil Desai is an unusual book which blends crime and comedy with apparent ease
Blending literary history, journalistic reportage and social history, ‘Rama Bhima Soma’ reanimates some pivotal moments in the making of modern Karnataka. These include the life and times of legends like Kuvempu and Shivaram Karanth; the fall of socialism and the...
‘The Story of Eve: Selected Poems’ is the first-ever collection of Zehra Nigah’s poems in English in a book form
Coming after a gap of 16 years, Jeet Thayil’s new poetry book, ‘I’ll Have It Here’, is like looking into an abyss that sniggers back, shakes your conscience and asks uncomfortable questions
The author makes a case for reclaiming the cultural, religious and medicinal heritage of cannabis as our own, before it is expropriated by other countries
Indian Parliament: Shaping the Foreign Policy by KV Prasad. KW Publishers. Pages 217. Rs 1,580 Parliament of India plays a key role in shaping foreign policy. While the book makes broad brushstrokes on the deliberations across 75 years, the focus...
The book explores several important aspects of understanding natural and social phenomena and the decision-making process of the brain, where principles of physics developed in very different contexts can be gainfully used
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