‘I wanted to write on tyranny’
A decade ago, a news snippet on Taliban’s keenness to promote cricket in Afghanistan intrigued Timeri N Murai.
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View from the local train window
The maiden ventures of Grey Oak publishing, a joint venture with Westland Books, are a worthy if slightly uneven
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INTERVIEW
'Encouraged to numb pain'
“If we understood loss better, perhaps we could accept it better, and understand that loss and reclamation are
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A New York Sheikha in a Yemeni Diwan
An American Journalist in Yemen, is a memoir of the time
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Psychological residues of the cell
In the mountain foothills of northern Pakistan, near the snow-capped Afghan passes with their “fluid and
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Archipelago of brutality
‘1984 is possibly the dystopian novel, set in a world
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FLYING MAN
One luggage carousel too many
Most authors use writing as a form of personal exorcism. Unfortunately, all demons and angels aren’t interesting.
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BALASARASWATI
The last devadasi of Thanjavur
When once asked how she’d like to be remembered, the great Bharatanatyam danseuse Balasaraswati reportedly said
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SANKARA NETHRALAYALA
A vision for compassion
This is the story of the dedication and passion of one person, Dr S S Badrinath, the founder of the now
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BOOK REVIEW
King Duttha Gamini’s reign
W here do I start reviewing a work whose author, no academic or historian, sets out all the same to record the
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ARTIST, UNDONE
Sanjay Kumar’s debut
Like contemporary art, V Sanjay Kumar’s debut — Artist, Undone — demands a little patience from its readers.
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BEAUTY OF BOOKS
Heterogeneity over homogeneity
Most people wouldn’t list Durkheim’s The Elementary Forms of Religious Life and Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and
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NOTES FROM WHERE
The indignation of imagination
My late friend, the choreographer, Chandralekha, used to speak a great deal about indignation—how she could
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STUPID GUY GOES TO INDIA
The story of the rising son
In 2004, having never left Japan before, 56-year-old manga author Yukichi Yamamatsu travelled to India, armed
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AYODHYA
Margins of the promised land
The business and accoutrements of religion have always dominated Ayodhya’s public space, and pilgrims and tourists
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SECOND INNINGS
Rasam noir revisted
After the resounding success of the first volume of Blaft’s anthology of Tamil pulp fiction, the editors are
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COMMEMORATING VICTORY
Rider on the storm
June 6, 1934. The event : the Epsom Derby. The winner : Maharaja Sir Vijaysinhji of Rajpipla. Commemorating
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Interpreter of royal heritage
It is on a chilly forenoon that I met Indra Vikram Singh in Delhi for a chat. With no airs about him, the scion of
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REVIEW
Journey into Indian maleness
The act of sex is a major part of the characterisation of sexuality. We are delineated by who, or what, or how
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REVIEW
Prisoner of fate
Jeffrey Archer’s The Sins of the Father picks up where the first edition of the series, Only Time Will Tell left.
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MIDDLE AGE
‘Sunlit upland of experience'
The 5th and 6th decades of human life have a bad reputation. From Terry and June to Homer Simpson, pop culture tells
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