Books

All homelands are imaginary, all nations are invented, while the imagination holds people in its sway strongly enough to make them behave in quite perverse ways — be it in the defence of a book, or ...

Are we unwittingly subjugating ourselves to a “Totalitarian World Currency in the Making”? Norbert Häring’s latest book, Brave New Money: PayPal, WeChat, Amazon Go, lucidly narrates how digital...

Recap: After consuming oodles of the signature Dessert a la Charulata made by Lata on the occasion of her birthday, and mulled wine brewed by the unlikely Hem, Aaduri and Lata talk about lovers — ol...

A single copy of The Bastard of Istanbul with its red spine peeking out from the ‘For Sale’ pile at The Oxford Bookstore at Park Street was our first encounter with Turkish novelist Elif Shafak �...

In Rethinking Higher Education in India (WordsWorth, Rs 275), Hema V. Raghavan deals with an issue that is often at the heart of public discourse in the country. Parties from across the political spec...

When Wilkie Collins died in September 1889, critics and readers were agreed that his best work was long past. He was struck by gout in the 1860s, known otherwise as the period in which he produced his...

Contesting a Left-liberal estimate which has historically dubbed the Naxalite movement an anarchist and sectarian one, the editor, Ranabir Samaddar, in From Popular Movements to Rebellion, argues for ...

Vision for HDFC Bank 2.0 After an 18-hour flight back, Aditya went straight to his office to hold a meeting as he wanted to “kick everyone’s ass” and prepare them for disruption.Around 20 peopl...

There has not been a time with a bigger need for the arts and exchange of ideas than now and the thought-stirrers and creators are rising to the action. Authors around the world are finding a small wi...

The 21st-century devil — Meryl Streep acted as one — may wear Prada. But the original Beelzebub loves sporting those good old horns. What’s more, on March 8 — celebrated as ‘Be Nasty Day’ ...