Books
Midnight's Children: Two Authors in Search of a Film
Rushdie and Mehta’s Midnight’s Children promises a doubled up feast for thought and senses before the theater goes dark.
Emerging Shades of Indian Erotica
In the last two years, the book, which captured the imagination of millions of Indian readers, is compelling indigenous publishers to explore the feasibility of homegrown erotica.
Writers Without Borders
This year, the Kumbh Mela of literary gatherings seemed to have morphed into an universe of literary outpourings spawning galaxies of thoughts and clusters of ideas around the academic magnets.
Being a Successful Poet is an Exercise in Obscurity
To some extent. Bombay is a mistress to many a lonely soul, its opiate histories and drunken peripheries have a natural intoxication.
Cartography is all About Imagination
My experience of Pakistan being firsthand gave me confidence to carry on and take any allegation of inferiority head on.
Hold the Shloka
World’s only Sanskrit daily holds out against the odds.
Are Writers Performers
In a world awash with new tools for communication and engagement, the symbolism, mystique and magic of anonymity, however seductive, is losing ground to new anthems celebrating the spirit of contact, connection and interaction.
Seeking Silence
In this interview Iyer spoke on an unusual topic — the value of silence and stillness amid the rush of business.
Tagore Haunted by Depression
Bhattacharya attributes the bard’s chronic loneliness to “disappointment with the support he received from his people.
Experiments With Gandhi
Even the most uncharitable reading of Mahatma Gandhi’s life and works would discount any possibility that Gandhi had sexual liaisons, much less homosexual ones, after 1906. Only fabricated and dishonest interpretations can — and have.
Unlocking the Brain’s Secrets
Washington Post reporter Shankar Vedantam’s book The Hidden Brain: How Our Unconscious Minds Elects Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars, and Save Our Lives, (Random House, 2010, $26) was
Almost Single, But Most Eligible
I tolerate my job, hate my boss, and bond big time with my friends, while routinely suffering from umbilical cord whiplash.
How Indian Is Indian Writing In English?
What is it that makes the most talented of India’s literary geniuses steer clear of Indian shores to settle down in foreign lands?
'Indians Are Privately Smart And Publicly Dumb'
In his book Games Indians Play: Why We Are the Way We Are, V. Raghunathan writes about a farmer whose corn won top awards year
