Vandana Singh’s The Bhagavad Gita is a compilation of 251 didactic verses of the ancient text, which deciphers the shlokas and contextualises them...

Faith transcends logic as people flock to deras of different hues, especially in the region of Haryana-Punjab. ‘To one who has faith, no explanation...

Reading 2014: The Election that Changed India is a move fraught with risk. As you set out to anxiously turn the pages to get an insight into the...

Krishna, according to Mahabharata, was born in the nearby forest and it was around here that the young flute-playing trickster flirted with the cow...

It is a story of despair, of injustice, of subjugation of basic human rights and of hopelessness that invokes in its readers a strong feeling of...

There are more pandals, more dhaks (traditional drums) and even more people. What has also gone up is the regional diversity of the people now...

The truth, as they say, is always a compound of two half truths and you never quite reach it because there is always something more to say. However,...

When Rossiter W. Raymond said, ‘Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our...

A wounded Bhishma Pitamah lay in pain on his bed of arrows though he was protected with ikchamrityu, the blessing to choose one’s hour of death. The...

You may think it’s difficult to write history because of the tedious process of fact collection and collation involved in it. You may also think it is...

The vote-seeking hoardings have been replaced with those carrying messages conveying gratitude. The big fight for seats in the 16th Lok Sabha is over....

What is the first thing one needs when s/he decides to pen down a book? A topic. But just any topic won’t do. The topic has to be new or it must dare...