New Delhi, June 10 -- I reread F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 classic, The Great Gatsby, for the first time in my early 30s. I had moved to Delhi around that time, rented the tiniest bedsit I could find i... Read More
New Delhi, June 9 -- A couple of months ago, I was conducting a workshop on behavioural skills with a multigenerational workforce at a Delhi-based organisation, when the conversation turned to Gen Z a... Read More
New Delhi, June 4 -- This isn't a 'How to jailbreak your Kindle' manual. Nor is it a paean to Amazon. As someone whose working life has revolved around editing and reviewing books, I am all too aware ... Read More
New Delhi, June 1 -- Geet Chaturvedi's novel Simsim (2023), translated from Hindi by Anita Gopalan, introduced his richly evocative style to English readers. The Master of Unfinished Things, his recen... Read More
New Delhi, May 29 -- At the screening of Satyajit Ray's 1970 classic, Aranyer Din Ratri, at the Cannes film festival earlier this month, the audience gave a standing ovation to the celebrities on stag... Read More
New Delhi, May 26 -- Earlier this month, multinational corporation and technology conglomerate Microsoft laid off 6,000 employees, about 3% of its workforce, in a move to streamline and optimise its f... Read More
New Delhi, May 25 -- On 23 February 1821, a young English doctor suffering from tuberculosis breathed his last on a tiny bed in a house near the Spanish Steps in Rome. In the last six years of his bri... Read More
New Delhi, May 18 -- In the 1770s, Vidya Rajan writes in her book Rubber: The Social and Natural History of an Indispensable Substance, an English engineer called Edward Nairne was believed to have us... Read More
New Delhi, May 17 -- Shabir Ahmad Mir's new novel, The Last Knot, is set in Kashmir under the Dogra rule, but the overall mood it conjures up isn't a million miles away from the state of darkness and ... Read More
New Delhi, May 13 -- If you are a professional, it's likely that you have recently completed a goal-setting exercise as part of your annual performance appraisal. Irrespective of the template followed... Read More