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What has been often apologetically dismissed as Ambedkar’s utopia – his ‘impracticable, unfeasible dream’ of caste-less society – his ‘anti-Hindu’...

Right at the outset of Playing the Nation Game, Benjamin Zachariah – historian, musician, playwright and occasional poet – tells us why we do not need...

Love. In theory and practice. Let’s call Ira Trivedi’s India in Love that because the book, written about ‘Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century’...

Fiction is written because ‘art’ ultimately is not ‘life’ but borrows from experiences. This is why some of the greatest books are the ones where some...

Series. Something we always associated with television, but then books happened. The irony however is that these series gain momentous popularity the...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is an integral part of the Indian consciousness, if such a thing ever existed. School curriculums have played a part in...

T SR Subramanian – with an insider’s insight and outsider’s rage – has made a frontal attack on the ills of Indian government and bureaucratic setup...

Tell us about yourself. How did you start writing?I have been writing since childhood. Apparently, when I was asked the all important ‘what do you...

The country is going through tough times. Poverty, sickness, mismanagement, corruption and misgovernance are rampant and almost omnipresent....

Instead we get a compilation of his ‘achievements and accolades’ during his tenure at the post. The book is divided into varied chapters that unravel...

Shawshank Redemption was the first thought that came to my head when I was done reading Omar Shahid Hamid’s The Prisoner. Honestly, it was a strange...

Like Indrajit Hazra, I was born and bred in Kolkata. Unlike him, I was a bokhate chele (mildly put, a wayward boy) and have lived the city not through...