Why no book-buying expedition can still match a visit to the Kolkata Book Fair
Photo Credit: IANS 18.9K Total Views I had been warned about the dust time and again. Magazine articles, friends, all warned, bhishon dhulo (awfully dusty)! So I was prepared for…
Banning release of the Godse book in Goa was an act of censorship and intolerance
23.7K Total Views Holding a mirror to society is the primary task of a public intellectual. Sometimes the reflection may not be pretty or what one would want to see,…
Neerja Bhanot biopic is a reminder of the glamorous lives of ’80s Indian air hostesses
Photo Credit: Courtesy Mahrukh Chikliwala 95.2K Total Views Some people called them "glorified ayahs”, while they were patronisingly referred to in Hindi as hawayi sundaris. Yet, in the 1970s and…
Full text: Name and shame the states behind non-state actors, says Foreign Secretary Jaishankar
Photo Credit: IANS 11K Total Views Full text of the address by Foreign Secretary at the Counter-Terrorism Conference-2016 in Jaipur I am very pleased to join you all this afternoon…