Non-food sector credit growth seen over 12 %

The relatively better performance of the Indian...

HINDUISM: Holika dahan

In a dramatisation of the victory of...

The stillness within the storm: Finding clarity in climate chaos

Cities wage war on silence. They think...

Utpal Kumar

No action after 10 infant deaths in Bhandara

A week later, there has been no FIRs or suspensions; a probe is pending.   New Delhi: One week. 10 deaths. No FIRs, no suspensions. High-level...

Meaningful return

She had a reasonably successful stint as an actor when she decided to leave the glitz and glamour of Bollywood for a quiet marital...

‘Film subtly deals with LGBTQIA rights and Section 377’

Author-turned-filmmaker Ram Kamal Mukherjee talks about his new film Season’s Greetings and his experiences in directing seasoned actors such as Celina Jaitly and Lillete...

The Papa of Comedy

He may be ‘the global face of Indian stand-up’, but it has taken Papa CJ a lot of hard work to reach where he...

Recalling the forgotten Sarkar of Indian history

T.C.A. Raghavan’s latest book takes us to a time when history hadn’t lost its innocence, and its eminent purveyors were not obsessed with ideological...

Exiled and still homeless

Taslima Nasrin was first thrown out of Bangladesh, the nation of her birth, and later from Kolkata, the city of her choice. In exile...

A league of his own

Today the name of Ashwin Sanghi is enough to guarantee the success of a book. But not many people know that this recognition came...

The shuttle guru

Pullela Gopichand is a one-man army who has transformed Indian badminton like never before. Under his stewardship, India’s best shuttlers led by P.V. Sindhu...

God’s Own Breath

Wrestler in the morning, student during the daytime and flute player in secret, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia lived more than a double life all through...

Why Pakistan is so keen to prop up ‘Pop Sufism’

Paracha believes that there’s a concerted attempt in Pakistan to ‘discover’ its Sufi links that will help counter its pariah image without giving in...

Games Indians play but don’t perform too well

A new book by Boria Majumdar and Nalin Mehta is as much the celebration of India’s tryst with Olympics as it is a sobering...

Searching for strange in a normal, believable world

Author Shreya Sen-Handley recounts stories of ordinary people whose lives have taken a sharp and unusual turn, thus making a case for grey in...

‘Churchill was no friend of India but he didn’t orchestrate Bengal famine’

British author, historian Diana Preston says she doesn’t believe Churchill orchestrated Bengal famine, but was ‘undoubtedly slow to respond to its seriousness’     New Delhi :Journalist Madhusree Mukherjee...

Agitating students have been militant and violent: JNU V-C

NEW DELHI: The ongoing agitation at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is “unwarranted”, “undemocratic” and even “unlawful”, says Vice-Chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar. There is,...

Savarkar was a patriot and his legacy should not become political football

The book helps unravel the enigma called Savarkar, who comes out as an organic whole. His mercy petitions and bravado no longer contradict his...

Nehru’s Balochistan blooper was as disastrous as his Himalayan blunder

‘Maybe the Nehru government failed to comprehend the strategic significance of an independent Balochistan’.     New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru’s Balochistan blooper may not be well-known today, but...

There’s a case for temple in Ayodhya but not at mosque’s cost: Tharoor

New Delhi: When senior Congress leader and former Union minister Shashi Tharoor came out with the book, Why I am a Hindu, a couple...

Private lives of the British Empire’s power couple

British author Andrew Lownie has written a joint biography of the distinguished and controversial Mountbatten couple. He speaks to Utpal Kumar about the lives...

Still stand by CAG finding of Rs 1.76L cr loss in 2G auction: Vinod Rai

The then CAG of India has accused the CBI of not doing enough to prove the charges.     New Delhi: In 2010, when the Comptroller and...

Dalrymple’s Anarchy shows where our historians have gone wrong

New Delhi: In 1835, when Lord Macaulay talked about creating a class of persons “Indian in blood and colour, but English in taste, in...

KVIC helps boost India’s honey exports

Its efforts to improve the state of beekeeping have helped increase the volume of honey exports from 29.6 to 51.5 thousand tonnes between 2014-15...

Why Kashmir needed azaadi from Article 370

The article of faith for religious and liberal fanatics has fanned Muslim extremism, victimhood and alienation in the garb of providing special status to...

Why Left and liberals are not right about Indian Right

New Delhi: Sir Jadunath Sarkar in his seminal book, Shivaji and His Times, recalled Jahangir as “flattering himself that he had killed” Akshay Bat...

How Amitbhai became the Shah of Indian politics

The book is a first real insight into the man who took the nation by storm in 2014 and has further built on...

‘Religion and liberalism go together in our culture’

Through his series of bestselling books, Amish has reintroduced India’s ancient epics into the cultural mainstream. He speaks to Utpal Kumar about his latest novel,...

Khadi commission creates jobs, fights terrorism and pollution

New Delhi: From being seen as a fabric of Gandhian austerity to being a fashionably cool stuff, khadi has come a long way. No...

‘Rahul will continue to guide the party along with new president’

Congress leader and former External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid speaks to The Sunday Guardian.   New Delhi: “You are asking me a difficult question,” concedes Salman...

Shah cracks the whip, but Hurriyat isn’t complaining

Separatist groups led by Hurriyat refused to give a shutdown call for the first time in the past three decades.   New Delhi: When Amit Shah,...

BJP’s move on triple talaq ban stumps Congress leadership

New Delhi: If the enthusiasm with which the BJP pushed the triple talaq Bill in the Lok Sabha on last Friday is any indicator,...

Chaos, crises and uncanny possibilities of Gun Island

Amitav Ghosh’s latest novel Gun Island straddles the past and the present, while pointing towards an uncertain future shaped by climate change and mass...

Modi scores big on terror as Imran looks for cover

New Delhi: In his 1968 book, Asian Drama, based on his experiences in the subcontinent, Swedish Nobel Laureate, Gunnar Myrdal noted that Pakistani diplomats...

Amit Shah gears up to crack the big Kashmir puzzle

New Delhi: When India got Independence in 1947, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), tucked in a right corner of North Block on Raisina...

Goddess of generalisations fails Gandhi and Ambedkar

Roy’s book fails to grasp the complexities of the two gigantic characters. It leads to the unravelling of the superstructure of ideas which she...

Forgotten massacre of Dalit refugees in communist Bengal

Book exposes the dark underbelly of the Left Front that ruled West Bengal for over three decades; it proves how the killings were planned.   It’s...

‘Nonfiction has to work within the confines of facts’

Crime writer S. Hussain Zaidi, who has written extensively about the nefarious activities of Mumbai’s criminal underworld, speaks to Utpal Kumar about his latest...

Lalu’s last-ditch effort to regain lost halo

The author, to his credit, does reveal a few not-so-savoury moments and concedes mistakes, but those are far and few.   Lalu Prasad Yadav, at the...

100 years later: Wagner’s Jallianwala Bagh is a timely book

The author explores the great divide between the ruler and ruled and the simmering unease among the ordinary people.   During a visit at the Jallianwala...

Romila Thapar’s latest is old wine in a new, glossy bottle

The main shortcoming of the book is that it takes the old ideological convenience of selective amnesia.   New Delhi: The question of origin has always...

EVM hacking allegations are politically motivated: Former CEC Quraishi

‘All political parties, sadly, remain united in their opposition to electoral reforms. Abuse of money power in elections and campaign funding top the list...

2019 elections have become competitive: Ruchir Sharma

‘I believe there’s a 50:50 chance for both sides. It all depends on how well the Opposition gets united and how efficiently they transfer...

Who failed Dharmendra?

The book opens new vistas into the actor’s life, telling with anecdotal details how he was destined to be a star. He must be...

It’s a battle between Modi and 11 PM claimants: Hardeep Puri

‘Modi needs 10 more years to completely turn things around. By 2029, India would be a $10 trillion economy.’   NEW DELHI: Delusion and power often...

NCERT books miss talking about India as terror victim

The political science books for Classes XI and XII don’t mention India while talking about terrorism.   NEW DELHI: It may seem to be a case...

‘Blame India’s Constitution for 1975 Emergency’

The author reminds readers that the President signed on the dotted lines to bring the nation under Emergency based on the letter, if not...

Traditional wisdom as a storehouse of health hacks

Grandma’s remedies may be derided by the scientifically-minded naysayers, but according to a new book by Kavita Devgan, our tradition has a lot to...

Book Review: A fresh insight into Sikkim’s merger with India

The king’s American wife, Hope Cooke did very little to change the perception of her being a CIA agent. She also argued that Darjeeling...

‘Nehru’s India helped China conquer Tibet’

Arpi comes up with an explosive revelation: that Nehru’s India supplied rice for the invading PLA troops in Tibet in the early 1950s.   The Chinese...

In India Luxury is the most misused and misunderstood word: Designer Ritu Beri

Often called the “First Lady of Indian fashion”, Ritu Beri has come a long way since she launched her own label in 1990. A...

An idea whose time has finally arrived

It’s a story that must be told again and again. For a nation that puts “artha” and “kama” along with “dharma” and “moksha” as...

Tharoor’s latest is not a book, but a Congress pamphlet on PM Modi

Tharoor’s failure to look at Narendra Modi dispassionately makes it his weakest book in recent times.   With a book titled The Paradoxical Prime Minister,...

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