Book Review: Island Of A Thousand Mirrors
It is said that the only good byproduct that any conflict brings is good literature. In fact the relationship between conflict and art goes back to the days of antiquity. Who could have imagined ‘The Persians’ had Xerxes not attacked Greece, or ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ without the Trojan War.
Book Review: Cell Phone Nation
The cheap mobile phone is probably the most disruptive communicative device in history. In India its potential to stir up society is breathtaking, argue well known historian Robbin Jeffery and leading anthropologist Assa Doran.
Book Review :The Test of My Life
An autobiography cast in the classic tale-of-survival-against-all-odd mould, The Test of My Life reinforces the commonly held belief that it is only in life-threatening adversity that the true character of an individual shines through. In Yuvraj Singh’s case, it certainly did.
Book Review: Che in Paona Bazaar
The North-East India has never been part of the mainstream narrative or development discourse in India. Ridden with armed conflicts over the years it has been treated like an imaginary flotsam.
Book Review: Young titan
History is rife with people who have been made important because of the thrust of history. There are others, unlucky ones, whose individual achievements got lost in the tsunami of big events.
Book Review: Stringer: A Reporter's Journey in the Congo
Violence has become synonymous with Congo. Explosion of violence in Congo has been hitting headlines incessantly.
Book Review: The Revenge of Geography
19th century American journalist and educationalist, Ambrose Bierce, in what was termed a bout of often frequent farsightedness, once quipped that "War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.â€
Book Review: The Lonely Monarch
It was a tumultuous period, as dramatic as any of the hugely successful plays that he staged in the course of an illustrious career in theatre.
Book Review: Breakthrough
Everybody needs to read some or the other self-motivational, personal improvement and goal fulfillment related books at some or the other point in their lives.
Macaulay: Pioneer of India's Modernization
Of all the aulaads and putras that Indians of a saffron hue regularly demonise, "Babur ki aulaad" and "Macaulay putras" have been the most reviled. And while the former have been subjected to death and destruction, the latter have been let off with mere lampooning.
Book Review: The Armies of South Asia
The economic surge in Asia has been discussed for long. But, there also has always been another aspect attached to South Asian matters.
Book Review: How it happened
Marriage the world over, is one of the most important events that happens in the lifetime of an individual. However, in the subcontinent, it is a different thing all together.
Book Review: The Ocean in a Drop
The name as is pithy as the book itself. ‘The Ocean in a Drop’ tells an interesting story and raises questions that should be asked, but for obvious reasons are not.
Book Review: Tata Log
Since 1868, when the founder and first chairman Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata established a private trading firm in Mumbai.
Book Review : London Company
It is interesting how popular culture focuses on certain aspects of a particular society while totally ignoring others. If popular culture was to be believed, one would think that racial dispute was the sole problem of the USA.
Issue Dated: Feb 5, 2017
