India, Aug. 30 -- My five-year-old goes to an international school in Gurgaon. Why did we choose it over CBSE/ICSE? Well, I can give a well-rehearsed five-minute monologue to proselytise CBSE simpleto... Read More
India, Aug. 30 -- A particular "crime" and the punishment laid down for it in India are the subject of this column today. As well as an associated dilemma. The issue in question is defamation, and mor... Read More
India, Aug. 30 -- Perhaps because I do interviews, I tend to think of developments in terms of the questions they raise. I am aware the process leads to a certain scepticism or, even, cynicism, but it... Read More
India, Aug. 29 -- What makes a mem-oir special? It is often the author's experiences: the people they meet and positions they hold, all of which allow readers a rare peek into a life and its times. Oc... Read More
India, Aug. 29 -- Love is patient, love is kind. Love will also make you lose your mind. Because no fairy tale or rom-com ever tells you what happily ever after is actually like. What goes on in the d... Read More
India, Aug. 29 -- When the British first arrived in India in 1608, they did not foresee how swiftly deadly tropical diseases would puncture European medical hubris. Ipshita Nath's In Sickness and in D... Read More
India, Aug. 29 -- Tyeb Mehta is the first comprehensive book devoted to the artist's practice since his death in 2009. One of the defining painters of India's first post-colonial generation, Mehta spe... Read More
India, Aug. 29 -- 1The title Helen of Nowhere is wonderfully paradoxical. What does "nowhere" mean? This book is about finding a place, learning to know a place, and being rooted close to the land. He... Read More
India, Aug. 29 -- The unnamed narrator is a wealthy Palestinian in New York, trapped in compulsive rituals of cleanliness and control. This could have been quirky, but Zaher writes her as deliciously ... Read More
India, Aug. 29 -- Is there a child today who has not been told the story of Newton sitting under an apple tree and the discovery of gravity? The story is entrenched in the folklore of science. In The ... Read More