Shehan Karunatilaka: ‘The state will come after the defenceless’ ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida’ is on the Booker Prize 2022 shortlist.
A passage to Japan The author’s gift is to walk through the doors of other people’s homes and discover their inner lives.
Old plot, new yarn The author has chosen to revive the century-old Bhawal case, interweaving facts with fiction.
A rereading of Kerala modernity The mongraph revisits the all-encompassing influence of the Left but also lays bare its weaknesses.
The fragment in history It seeks to foreground the unextraordinary, neglected pieces of evidence in the history writing of early India.
A creative ferment The Quran & modernityThe Quran, the Word of God, is understood only by the fallible mind of man.
Pioneering reformerSuchetana ChattopadhyayA concise, informative and lucid account of Rammohun Roy’s life and times.
Voice of a bygone eraAbhinav ChandrachudAMONG over 200 judges, including 39 Chief Justices, who have served on the Supreme Court of India so far, Justice P.N. Bhagwati is one judge who will
Savarkar’s unparalleled record!1. 1909: Col. Sir William Curzon Wyllie, an India House official, executed through Madanlal Dhingra.
The BJP and Nathuram GodseA.G. Noorani THE Bharatiya Janata Party and its ancestor, the Bharatiya Jan Sangh, have always felt embarrassed and uneasy about Nathuram Godse. They very
Unravelling historyA.G. NooraniTHERE is a lot about India’s relations with Pakistan of which we know nothing. By a recent edict the Government of India even barred access to documen
Spirit of toleranceA.G. NooraniTHREE decades after Jawaharlal Nehru’s death, a crop of “realists” comprising a former Foreign Secretary, J.N. Dixit, a noted columnist, a few Bharati
South Asian realitiesAjith Pillai THIS is a book that should find a place on the shelf of anyone interested in South Asia as a region, the pulls and pressures that have influen
Consumerist hegemonyShelley WaliaTHERE are no two opinions about the fact that our age is one of consumerism. As Oswald Spengler has argued, life in the contemporary world is exclusiv
Foreign policy lessonsK. P. FabianTHIS book is refreshingly different from what most other retired diplomats have written. There is no sharing of personal experience or boasting of bei
Essay Crisis of the Indian BarA.G. NOORANIThe defence lawyer is as integral to the judicial process as the judge and the prosecuting lawyer; to prevent legal representation for a person accus
Tackling insurgencyR.K. RAGHAVANTwo books that weave a credible story of what actuates the insurgent movement and how it is being handled.
An institute of Bodology to investigate the past The Bodos are constructing a comprehensive picture of the Brahmaputra civilisation.
