New Delhi, April 19 -- That the book is informative, engaging, provocative and rooted 'in the context of the contemporary' is clear from the cover itself: the font size of Demography is bigger than th... Read More
New Delhi, April 12 -- The genre, the subject, the design and the format are quite different from what I normally review each week; usually a book of fiction, nonfiction or translation submitted for t... Read More
New Delhi, April 5 -- I met Bhaskar Roy for the first time at the IIC, New Delhi on January 31 earlier this year. After an engaging discussion on his book 'Border Crossers' - a highly sensitive portra... Read More
New Delhi, March 29 -- A movement needs a cause, ideological construct(s), leaders, followers, foot soldiers, and most of all, a chronicler who can leave an authentic narrative for posterity. For at t... Read More
New Delhi, March 22 -- I write this book review with a sense of deep personal regret. Smita Shah, the author, presented me a copy of her book 'Leaves From A Bureaucat's Diary: Memoirs of an IAS Wife' ... Read More
New Delhi, March 8 -- For a Better Democracy in Bharat by Gautam R Desiraju (who earlier authored Bharat 2.0) and Deekhit Bhattacharya could not have come at a better time. Earlier this week, all the ... Read More
New Delhi, March 1 -- Life Happens is a collection of forty-five short reflections, odes, and illustrations on a wide range of subjects that affect young people-from loneliness and despair to happines... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 22 -- The military is certainly about symbols - flags, bugles, conches, regalia, trumpets, medals, badges and epaulettes, and of course protocol, discipline and hierarchy. In fact, in ... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 15 -- If Sardar Patel is the patron saint of the IAS, with respect to the diplomatic corps, the same sobriquet has to be applied for Nehru. For the record, while the first batch of the... Read More
New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- In November of the year that just went by, I received a review copy of this book, as also an invite for a speaking engagement in the provincial town of Siliguri in which Sumana Ro... Read More