New Delhi, June 14 -- A Generational Reversal of Globalisation by Sunita Narain is a collection of The Prelusion (a synonym for Prelude) and ten essays written between 2016 and 2024. It covers a range... Read More
New Delhi, June 7 -- Some secrets are meant to be stored in underground vaults: others are meant to be shared for the larger good of humanity. When a two-star Fauji veteran decides to share the most i... Read More
Circa 1800, May 31 -- This was the time when the port city of Kolkata was an El Dorado - the first city of the very prosperous British East India which attracted Caucasian settlers of all manners and ... Read More
New Delhi, May 24 -- The Statue of Unity - the world's tallest statue at 182 meters (600 feet) - at Kevadia on the banks of the Sardar Sarovar Dam is now the venue for Aarambh, a weeklong programme fo... Read More
New Delhi, May 17 -- It is with a sense of great pride and ownership that I introduce this absolutely riveting read: A Resurgent North East: Narratives of Change by Ashish Kundra, whom I had the privi... Read More
New Delhi, May 10 -- When the British left India in 1947, we were an impoverished nation. Our poverty ratio was a staggering 80 per cent, and not more than 12 per cent of our people, predominantly upp... Read More
New Delhi, May 3 -- 14 Defining Moments that Shaped Arunachal Pradesh by Sonam Chombay is a state gazetteer, personal anecdote, pictorial documentation, administrative musing, as well as a nuanced blu... Read More
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