India, April 22 -- This is your first non-fiction book. What drew you to the subject of oceans? I thought about the idea 25 years ago where I wanted to use the ocean to think about questions of histo... Read More
India, April 19 -- Trust Gurinder Chadha to Punjabify Austen and cast Aishwarya Rai as Elizabeth Bennet. Rewatch to see how Babbar plays the mother as an unabashed loudmouth. She's taut as a bow, read... Read More
India, April 18 -- Anne Hathaway, Becoming Jane (2007). When Jane Austen died in 1817, her family censored many parts of her life and thought it's best she was remembered as docile Aunt Jane. But Hath... Read More
India, April 18 -- Anne Hathaway, Becoming Jane (2007). When Jane Austen died in 1817, her family censored many parts of her life and thought it's best she was remembered as docile Aunt Jane. But Hath... Read More
India, April 11 -- Tussling with a new book about the failure of the nation-state, British writer Rana Dasgupta, 53, was feeling like anything but a winner, when he got the call telling him that he ha... Read More
India, April 4 -- He's never liked the idea of music being divided into genres. It divides people, says Steve Barakatt, 51. "And I believe that music is meant to communicate and unite. Inclusivity is ... Read More
India, March 31 -- In 2023, nearly 12 million hectares, almost as big as Nicaragua, burned to ash, emitting a copious amount of carbon dioxide. We are also losing forest cover, which is making the pla... Read More
India, March 10 -- How do you tend to a farmer whose kidneys have shrivelled up as his body endured punishing heatwaves and lack of clean water, making him a lifelong patient? Or a young adult who com... Read More
India, Feb. 28 -- It's an unusual thing to hear from a prolific writer, but Pico Iyer, 68, says he measures joy not in words as much as silences. He was 34, adds the British-born author and journalis... Read More
India, Feb. 23 -- Could our sins have helped us survive? A new book by the English neurologist Dr Guy Leschziner suggests the reason we don't evolve out of our "dark sides" is that they once helped us... Read More