New Delhi, Dec. 13 -- From the perspective of India's freedom movement, 1929 was a salient year: this marked the end of the 'conservative and constitutional era' of Motilal Nehru. The baton of the Con... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 22 -- The repertoire of the 20 stories in Mona Verma's The Scent of Himalayas - Stories from the Mystical Mountains is drawn from Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, the Garhwal and Kum... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 8 -- The cover page of Makarand Paranjape's meditation on Hindutva and Hind Swaraj has a deep red background. Veer Savarkar, in a shade of saffron, points to the left, while Mahatma Ga... Read More
New Delhi, Nov. 1 -- Exploring the Amazing World of Aviation' by CISF veteran Shiv Kumar Mohanka is certainly India's (and perhaps the world's) most comprehensive cover-to-cover offering about anythin... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 18 -- Sudhir Vidyarthi's poignant offering of the stories in Bidai De Ma! (Bid me Farewell, Mother) is a recollection of the mothers and sisters of 13 revolutionaries who smiled their ... Read More
New Delhi, Oct. 4 -- Soni Pandey's Suno Kabir took me back on a memory lane to 2004, when I was an election observer for the Azamgarh constituency in the general elections that year. I knew three thin... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- High up in a little Ladakhi village, a young boy named Otsal spies three fluffy kittens and their stern-looking mother in the family storeroom. "Amalele, amalele," he says to hi... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 20 -- A General's Odyssey by Army Commander Lt Gen (Retd) Vijay Kumar Ahluwalia is far more relatable to the young women and men of India than the heroic journey of Homer, the king of... Read More