Farcical times with ‘A Small Family Business’

British playwright Alan Ayckbourn’s award-winning play, “A...

Lohum ties up with EV firms for battery recycling

NEW DELHI Indian companies in the auto and...

Shantanu Guha Ray

I kick and I Fly: Do you know the true stories of young sex workers?

The book opens up on the outskirts of the homes of sex workers on the outskirts of a town in Bihar. An unforgettable story...

Indian vessels stuck in the Panama Canal

NEW DELHI As the Panama Canal will have restrictions on its daily vessel transit for another 10 months amidst a prolonged drought, experts associated with...

‘India needs to rethink its tobacco laws’

NEW DELHI A seasoned lawmaker has said India needs to seriously take a relook at its tobacco laws, and those relating to e-cigarettes and heated...

Ruthless exposure of monumental follies

Ranganathan has meticulously researched the book and explained in chapter after chapter what he calls the great discrimination that is unparalleled in world history. A...

Mysterious students’ deaths and a bagful of lies

The UGC, it is reliably learnt, is likely to send a fact-finding team to look into the two cases of deaths. New Delhi Kolkata’s progressive colleges,...

Supreme Court set to decide the future of Sterlite copper

The stalemate has existed for over six long years. With the plant closed, many downstream units have fallen on bad days. Thoothukudi is now...

Resurrecting the hidden facts of Goa 1961

Valmiki Faleiro's book has intricate details the author gathered from 150 sources. New Delhi Like the big brushes of Maqbool Fida Hussain that filled giant...

Sex workers: The new route to park sleaze cash

New Delhi Hawala, India’s age-old practice of cash transfers through illegal channels, has acquired new hues as many have started parking sleaze cash with...

Big energy push brings hope to eastern India

New Delhi Energy-starved eastern India’s gas markets could get a big boost following Essar Exploration’s tie-up with Australia’s Galilee Energy to collaborate on coalbed methane...

The long, brutal nights of Capt Kamal Bakshi

Shivalik Bakshi’s Nowhere Man is a wonderful read. Will the Ministry of External Affairs react and open another round of negotiations on missing PoWs...

Private sector seeks fairplay in power sector

New Delhi Simmering discontent plagues India’s power sector where private companies feel PSUs get undue advantage because of their status. The companies feel this trend...

Transnational project: Adani silences critics with power supply to Bangladesh

KOLKATA India's first transnational power project that started three months ago is slowly, yet steadily, lowering costs of electricity in power-starved Bangladesh that has...

Do you know who was at the hotel last night?

L. Aruna Dhir’s book is full of mind-blowing, inside stories of Indian hotels. She is the ultimate insider of hotels, a storehouse of information that...

ED probing TMC youth leader’s source of wealth

Sources within the Enforcement Directorate said Saayoni Ghosh was questioned about the source of her wealth. Saayoni Ghosh, a young actor-turned politician and president of...

Petronas needs to show it is serious about investments in India

New Delhi No one knows why Malaysian energy giant Petronas’s plans to invest in India’s blue-chip companies are proving to be a dampener, forcing India’s...

Irrfan: Popular in the West, unmatched in Asia

Irrfan ruled not because he was a Khan but because he dropped the title and outpaced the other three Khans of Bollywood by his...

Some wonderful stories from the North Block

A.K. Bhattacharya’s ‘India’s Finance Ministers: From Independence to Emergency’ is a serious book, not meant for the masses. For many years, officials of the Finance...

Inside bloodied East Pakistan, through BSF’s eyes

The book takes a totally fresh look at the Liberation War through the eyes of the Border Security Force (of India) which worked very...

Meet Bengal’s Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid

Two members of Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Con- gress who formed a team of outlaws like Butch Cas- sidy and Sundance Kid are under arrest...

India’s booming halal economy confronts a problem

NEW DELHI: India’s halal economy and its unique mode of certification could come under the government’s scanner because the Food and Safety Standards Authority...

Vajpayee: The man who was ready to listen

He was the man who showed the saffron brigade its space under the sun. One of the most widely circulated videos of former Prime Minister...

The big cat rattles the flock of pigeons

A new book highlights inconsistencies in investigations of the murdered rationalists in Karnataka. The Rationalist Murders is the work of a seasoned medical practitioner, Amit...

Have you heard some unheard tales from Naxalbari?

Charu Majumdar had once said power flows from the barrel of a gun and promised to lift impoverished villagers out of a cesspool of...

Have you seen the seven colours of the Seven Sisters?

Ashish Kundra, in his book, ‘A Resurgent Northeast’, says with conviction that for most of India’s existence, its Northeast has lived in the shadow...

Do you know how to socialise in a new way?

Top Bollywood director Farah Khan has already described Kai Jussawalla’s book, Who Wants to Marry Kai Juicewalla: One Life, Many Love(s), Endless Misadventures as...

Why is the West miscalculating Vedanta’s cash?

Rating agency S&P Global Ratings has said Vedanta Resources Ltd will likely have enough liquidity until December 2023. New Delhi: Billionaire Anil Agarwal’s debt is...

Basu Chatterjee, his perfect introductions to characters

The book explains why Chatterjee looked into details which were masterful. No wonder he was a sentimental filmmaker, as every real filmmaker should be. In...

India’s lab diamonds give jitters to global markets

‘Lab-grown diamonds, branded wrongly as fake, are a $22 billion market across the world’. New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s recent focus on lab-grown diamonds...

World silent on efforts by zealots to ethnically cleanse Hindus in Bangladesh

NEW DELHI: Demand is mounting across the world for recognition of Hindus killed in genocide of 1971 in East Pakistan. Approximately, three million people...

How the Big Bull made big cash, and lost some

The man who turned into India’s Big Bull started on a very tough note, says the book, The Big Bull of Dalal Street. I had...

Home they brought the warrior dead

‘Bipin: The Man Behind the Uniform’ by Rachna Bisht Rawat is a very emotional book where each chapter reminds you of the fateful day...

India draws roadmap for carbon capture, utilisation, storage

NEW DELHI: India will chart out by this fall a roadmap for climate sustainability and transition to net zero for limiting global temperature rise...

The truth about Adani’s big buck business

Insiders indicate the presence of some top Opposition politicians in London for a meeting last year with some financial honchos, possibly bankers. The meeting...

Beyond fall of Zilingo, death of a $1bn start-up

This case raises concerns about corporate governance, workplace harassment and challenges faced by women entrepreneurs in male-dominated industries. Zilingo, a Singapore-based B2B fashion tech startup,...

Let Ipsita tell you all about witchcraft

I met Ipsita Roy Chakraverti a little over three decades ago in Calcutta, it was not Kolkata then. She did not fit into my...

ONGC plans big pipeline replacement

NEW DELHI: Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, India’s state-owned hydrocarbon giant, has initiated a big buck pipeline replacement project that is crucial to the...

State of South Asian cricket makes ICC wary

It is reliably learnt that the ICC is worried at two separate developments involving cricketers from India and Bangladesh. New Delhi: The Dubai-based International Cricket...

Lovely tales from Odisha hinterland

Gopinath Mohanty started writing much before India gained independence and his works were considered brilliant by many even in the 1940s.   Before I delve into...

India’s online gaming industry faces challenges

Zeal with which indirect tax authorities are serving notices to legitimate operators is unfounded. Is someone seriously thinking about the online gaming industry? Not exactly....

Do you know who killed Mihir Kothari?

Anand Ranganathan’s murder mystery has arrived in a totally glamorous package. It starts on a lovely night, a magical dinner and death coming home...

Big fight over a small piece of land in Bengal

Visva Bharati University wants Amartya Sen to return the land.   NEW DELHI: In its centenary year, Rabindranath Tagore’s iconic abode has snowballed into a raging...

Economy, politics and how India is transforming

What makes the book brilliant and readable is the fact that Lahiri evaluates things critically, he does not blindly buy into the India story.   Before...

India needs to adopt tech to cut down on smoking

NEW DELHI: Suggestions are filling the tables of the Finance Minister for the annual budget, economists and experts are offering their point of views....

Time to know the other history of India’s freedom struggle

The underlying theme of Sanjeev Sanyal’s book is simple. The troika of nationalists, Lala Lajpat Rai, Bal Gangadhar Tilak and Bipin Chandra Pal were...

Shadowy hands behind unrest against Asia’s largest diamond mine

Buxwaha, Sagar (MP): Troubled by a medley of activists, the Aditya Birla group may have developed second thoughts over a big diamond project in...

Do you know who Madhu Grover is?

NEW DELHI; A flamboyant 50-plus Indian woman has shocked Indian and US officials, and the US court system following proof that she violated Indian...

Former Army man says drop cricket, play kabaddi instead

NEW DELHI: A technical expert, who once served the Indian defence forces, wants to shape the ancient game of kabaddi in such a style...

No consensus on taxation on online gaming industry

If the valuation mechanism is changed to a tax on the Contest Entry Amount (CEA), it renders the entire industry unviable.   NEW DELHI: The Group...

Checking the mosaic of India

‘There is an inner core—the very being of India, nourished by inherent, unseen powers—common to Indians from all corners of the country. These powers...

A smart lawyer and his judicial activism

Many have forgotten a brilliant book he has penned, Fifteen Judgements: Cases That Shaped India’s Financial Landscape.   Saurabh Kirpal is a 50-year-old gay lawyer, who...

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