Business Czarinas
The economic reforms that kicked off in 1991 not only ended the licence permit raj but also gave boost to private enterprise and entrepreneurs to bloom.
Water : A Source For Future Conflicts
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) made water an important part of its Delhi poll manifesto and kept asserting that if it came to power it would 700 litres free water to the people.
An Escape That History Forgot
History bears witness to the fact that, over the years, prison terms have often acted as a launching pad against unjust rule
Life And Hope In A Conflict Zone
Of the civil wars that have shaped the modern course of world history, Africa has sadly had the lion’s share of them in its kitty
An Irreverent Take
Somewhere in Jonathan Aitken's close-to-800 pages leviathan on Margaret Thatcher, there is an interesting anecdote
The Men Who Shaped World Cinema
If you admire Alexander Sokurov the most among contemporary Russian filmmakers, you’d find a hole in this book
Of Monsters And Miracles
Much has changed between the year 1885 and today. Much has not. The fearful love for monsters and miracles, for instance, has remained with us.
Holding Their Own in a Man's World
Pandora's Daughters by veteran journalist Kalyani Shankar aims to illuminate and interpret the strengths and weaknesses of eight prominent
Maddaddam : Rollercoaster Dystopian Ride
In the 2009 Greek Drama Film Kynodontas (Dogtooth), a couple forcibly keeps its three young adult children inside the confines of the house in order to keep them unaffected the "impurities of the outside world.†To achieve that they plan elaborate surreal arrangements which involve giving completely new meaning to new words that the children happen to listen by mistake, in order to make them believe that such a thing...
Book Review: Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times
At a time when global leaders are reaching out to Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi after ostracising him for more than a decade for his role in abetting the 2002 riots in the western state he rules, a comprehensive biography of the man is more than the need of the hour.
Book Review: Bollywood Baddies
Would popular Hindi cinema have been quite as colourful, engaging and full of high drama without the nefarious nudging of its dreaded villains? The answer to that question is an obvious no.
Book Review: Ghana Must Go
If one looks at the trends in the last few years, Taiye Selasi probably had the biggest hype surrounding a new unpublished author. Biggest, if you discount the brief debacle that happened with Kaavya Viswanathan and her How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life.
Book Review: Fallen Angel: The Making and Unmaking of Rajat Gupta
A palpable shockwave swept through the Indian and international-corporate world after Rajat Gupta, the India-born former head of McKinsey & Co, was convicted for one of the largest insider trading scandal in US history in June 2012.
Book Review: Sunshine Lanes
A poetic journey indeed! There aren't too many contemporary Hindi film lyricists who can legitimately lay claims to being a poet to boot. Prasoon Joshi’s Gulzar-like portrait on the cover of this book, the right temple of a pair of spectacles dangling from a corner of the mouth completes the pensive image of a man who has successfully steered clear of the crassly commercial aspects of his calling and survived to tell the tale.
Book Review: Land of The Seven Rivers
History can be very dangerous because our interpretations are invariably coloured by our ideological worldview. So let me state right at the outset that the JNU school of historians are not going to like this book.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
