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...
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...
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...
Wrestler in the morning, student during the daytime and flute player in secret, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia lived more than a double life all through...
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...
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...
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,...
‘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...
British author Andrew Lownie has written a joint biography of the distinguished and controversial Mountbatten couple. He speaks to Utpal Kumar about the lives...
The article of faith for religious and liberal fanatics has fanned Muslim extremism, victimhood and alienation in the garb of providing special status to...
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,...
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...
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...
New Delhi: In his 1968 book, Asian Drama, based on his experiences in the subcontinent, Swedish Nobel Laureate, Gunnar Myrdal noted that Pakistani diplomats...
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...
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...
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...
‘All political parties, sadly, remain united in their opposition to electoral reforms. Abuse of money power in elections and campaign funding top the list...
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,...
