The biography on Syud Hossain has been written by Aligarh Muslim University research scholar Asad Faisal...

The Frontier Gandhi: My Life and Struggle, Autobiography of Abdul Ghaffar Khan Roli Translated from Pukhto by Imtiaz Ahmad Sahibzada, Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s autobiography captures rare anecdotes ...

She fought cancer bravely in the last years even while putting together a book on her father… could you give the readers a glimpse of that period? She took up the project in desperation as no ...

At least three extraordinary individuals may be said to have substantially contributed to the making of Zohra, the artist and the human being, her forceful attitudes and her never-say-die aspirations....

One of his favourite anecdotes is about two men driving along in a car who see a man in pyjamas with his chin covered in shaving foam carrying something like a football under his arm. They struggle to...

Roger thinks he is just a regular guy. Well, hello, please! I have not gone around saying “this guy is extraordinary” for 20 years for this kind of betrayal, Roger!  Clarey in severa...

Shahid wrote his PhD dissertation on T.S. Eliot, and Kapoor traces his strong influence on the former. Eliot’s work allowed Shahid to remove himself from his personal experience to write from th...

Parry’s revisiting of all those places — Oxford, London, Dublin and County Cork in Ireland, Cambridge, Calcutta — where the trio had met, mingled and dispersed, after the passing of ...

Guru Dutt was also a film-maker who was possibly ahead of his time, as judged by the reaction now to Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, the last of which he didn&rs...

The most interesting part of the biography is the episode about the founding of ITC SRA — the way A.N. Haksar, the first Indian chairman of the Imperial Tobacco Company, later renamed as the Ind...