Visiting Professor Amitava Kumar's blog is always a good trip--it results in my coming back with some new information, novel insights. ...

[From Kitaab.org] Among the bunch of famous Indian novelists and writers, Richard Crasta’s name might not be as widely recognized as that of...

Professor Amartya Sen says that it is good to have debates and discussions and it is good to argue with others on topics of importance. I d...

In his brilliantly written essay Capital Gains (Granta), novelist Rana Dasgupta makes us meet MC who is just 28. He operates five shopping ...

Naseeruddin Shah on the theatre group Uploaded by lehren . - Watch feature films and entire TV shows. These days I have been reading some of...

Though it was published last year in December, I recently spotted this Soumya Bhattacharya (writer and editor of HT, Mumbai) interview in Gr...

Aravind Adiga on his growing up years in Mangalore ( The Independent ): ... my grandfather, an Indian nationalist, disdained to speak Englis...

My daughter is not well and I am holed up at home—taking care of her. She is recuperating and I have put her on medicine and on strong dosag...

Gouri Dange (Outlook) on Chandrahas Choudhury's Arzee The Dwarf : From the first page, this is a triumph of storytelling in what Chandra...

The Delhi high court ruling against the IPC 377 sent a wave of jubilation in India 's homosexual community. Suddenly the criminal stigma...

My friend Nishant, a Delhi-based journalist and social worker, has sent me a strong, well-argued rejoinder to my post on Arundhati Roy ( Roy...

My interview @ chillibreeze . I discuss the future of publishing in Asia Excerpts: The popularity of e-books will increase with the adoption...

“We should respect differing opinions up to certain point, and then it's time for the wise to blow the whistle. Sir, not only do I diffe...

Book Review Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga Picador, 2009 When I finished reading the last story from Aravind Adiga’s Between th...

Early eighties. In a pre-liberalization India, the angry young man image of Amitabh Bachchan rules the imagination of millions—fighting his ...

After 17 years of probe, the Babri Masjid demolition report has been finally submitted by the Liberhan Commission . The contents of the repo...

After the brouhaha over the Iran elections, the world media has been focused on the sudden death of Michael Jackson at the age of 50. Mahmou...