Books

Christopher C. Doyle has carved a name for himself as the Indian equivalent of Dan Brown, a writer who creates thrillers based on Indian mythology. What sets him apart, perhaps, is that he is not look...

When The New Yorker published The Lottery — Shirley Jackson’s bone-chilling tale about a murderous ritual in a New England village — in 1948, it received the kind of fan mail that no fictional w...

As I wait for William Dalrymple by the poolside of the elegant Taj Bengal to talk about The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire, I rummage through memorie...

In Empty Planet, Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson, argue that the global population will decline soon as a result of the rapidly falling birth rate below replacement level (less than two children per...

The year, 1911, is believed to be a signpost in the history of Indian football. Mohun Bagan, laymen and historians know it well, sent shivers down the English spine by beating their fancied rivals, th...

Asked to address his teammates on earning his maiden Test cap, the genial V.V.S. Laxman recalls in this enjoyable book written with R. Kaushik that he had struggled for words. Just then, Javagal Srina...

Some matches are made in heaven; some others in publishing houses. Pairing up an author with the right illustrator can conjure up a magic that breathes life into books where words fall short. The part...

***Can Jammu and Kashmir recover from this low? Can a new peace process rise from the old one’s ashes?The lessons we learn from Jammu and Kashmir’s history are several. The past fifteen years thre...

**** About her other, older son, Rajiv, she used to say, ‘He doesn’t know anything about politics.’ It must have been a very bleak time for Indira Gandhi and both sons when the Congress lost the...

As people milled about and ate and drank (Blue Lagoon only, but still) and gushed over the young couple who were now sparkling on the makeshift stage in the naach ghar, Boro Jethu found himself strand...