Words Matter
In September 2015, a week after veteran Kannada writer-activist Professor M M Kalburgi was gunned down in Dharawad district of north .....
Mohammed Rafi
For a nation so obsessed with playback singing and its starts, India surprisingly has pretty abysmal record when it comes to penning books.....
India's Long Road
Ahead of the 2014 General Elections the prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, campaigned on the twin themes of 'vikas' ......
Black Flags
The spectacular rise of Islamic State has spawned several books in the last few years. As with any rising phenomenon, publishers and writers ......
The Dispensable Nation
I chose to read this book for two reasons: first, the curiosity of the title by an author of Iranian descent; and secondly because the author....
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
If I spoke to one hundred scientists about the topic of scientific wrongness, I suspect I’d get one hundred slightly .....
Rage of The River
Three years ago, in June 2013, when a multi-day cloudburst took place in the Kedarnath region of Uttarakhand, causing massive floods .....
The Rise and Fall of Nations
Hit by a global financial crisis in 2008, the world continues to reel under its impact even today. Credit crunch, decline in manufacturing.....
The Greatest Minds & Ideas of All Time
Among the modern historians—with the exceptions of Holocaust deniers and other loonies—no historian has been as derided by his peers .....
King of The World
CASSIUS CLAY entered the ring in Miami Beach wearing a short white robe, "The Lip†stitched on the back. He was beautiful again. He was fast, sleek, and twenty-two......
An Enigma Revealed
Who was Narasimha Rao? For party grown sycophants, or for those belonging to the Congress or subscribing to its ideology, ......
Of Humans and Humanity
Science books for general readers is probably the most difficult genre that there is. Most writers tend to either sound too academic or too .....
An Unlikely Epidemic
I guess I didn’t need The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time, an engaging and highly......
In the Retrospective
Amidst political turmoil, high oil prices, fiscal profligacy and little foreign exchange to last for a fortnight, India was forced to airlift tonnes.....
Of Sentiment and Censorship
The easiest thing to do, perhaps in our part of the world, is to hurt someone’s sentiment. It requires almost no effort at all. All one needs is to either ........
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
