India, April 13 -- Dear Reader, On Monday evening, I attend an intriguing event on translation, at London's oldest bookstore, Hatchards. They are launching a translation book club, and this is the ve... Read More
India, April 6 -- Dear Reader, She was the girl with the American accent. That made her stand out in the backwaters of Calcutta, where we were batch mates at IIM Calcutta. Later, when we became frien... Read More
India, March 31 -- Dear Reader, I can't remember how I discovered Kahneman. This Israeli-American psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in Economics definitely didn't figure in my high school economic... Read More
India, March 23 -- Dear Reader, Two of my favourite books this year are set in Chicago. The first is Wellness by Nathan Hill. It's the story of Elizabeth and Jack, which is set in Wicker Park, a Chi... Read More
India, March 16 -- Dear Reader, Mary Beard is everybody's favourite poster girl. A classics don from Cambridge, Beard is revered for rescuing Roman history from a dusty discipline, elevating it to a ... Read More
India, March 13 -- "My existence is a fluke, an outgrowth of a mass murder," says Brian Klaas. With that sensational declaration, the political scientist-associate professor at University College Lon... Read More
India, March 2 -- Dear Reader, It is a winter afternoon at the Dashashwamedh Ghat, and we three sit cross-legged on a marble slab overlooking the Ganga. Up in the distance, a paper kite soars high i... Read More
India, Feb. 23 -- Dear Reader, I have been a fan of Patrick Radden Keefe ever since I read his stunning expose, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (2021). And now I am to meet ... Read More
India, Feb. 17 -- How can I be sceptical of romantic love? Thirty-one years ago I braved my Punjabi family's disapproval, to do a Two States, to marry my MBA classmate, a boy from Bengal. Three decad... Read More
India, Feb. 3 -- Dear Reader, At the David Sassoon Library, a sculpture of cascading books opens out into a little garden. People are discussing Naked, a murder mystery co-written by Aditi Mediratta ... Read More