As Narendra Modi sets about pursuing his ambitions with a well-crafted image of a ‘doer’ and a politician ‘who means business’, a new biography separates the man from the myth

This excerpt from a forthcoming ‘authorised-turned-unauthorised’ biography of the BJP’s man of the season, Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi

The celebrated author lends a preface and perspective to an updated book of essays on the Afzal Guru investigation and trial

'Tiger has not gone away; he continues to fill my life. He is around for me in many ways I did not expect... Much as I feel deprived, I do not feel alone'

Saba Karim was hit in the right eye during an Asia Cup match in Dhaka. Tiger visited him in hospital, and Saba asked him how long it took him to recover.

As good a day as any to recognise that ‘women’ is neither a stable nor a homogeneous category.

An extract from the best-selling book on the trial of the former Goldman Sachs director who has been ordered to pay USD 6.2 million to his former employer for legal expenses in the insider trading case

A glimpse into the third and final part of the immensely successful Shiva Trilogy

Previously unseen stills of the Bangladesh war from a master

The secret history of Rama's appearance in Babri Masjid: what happened on the fateful night of December 22-23,1949 in Ayodhya that went on to change India’s polity forever

At the Park Street-Middleton Row corner, speckled with iconic establishments, infected with old joie de vivre, one can sense a ‘modern’ past feeling for the future. In Calcutta.

Dreamworld of the ‘Consumer’: Today, consumption is the activity that determines us; it defines what we are.

Swami Vivekananda: Social reformer or caste votary? Religious inclusivist or Hindu supremacist?

Exclusive extracts from a re-imagining of the Mahabharata set in the Mumbai underworld

The yawn of lassitude, the drab of the quotidian, the assembly line of repetition—the late poet laureate waxes soporific on the redundancy of time.

A complete intellectual history of modern South Asia is yet to be written, one that accords a rightful place to Muslim traditions of inquiry into self and sovereignty in the making of India—and Pakistan

The definitive biography of enfant terrible Sanjay Gandhi, reissued

How 'Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury' became Ravi Shankar and married Ustad Allauddin Khan's daughter.

Twenty years ago, the tumultuous days of the Ramjanmabhoomi agitation, and a curious cast of characters in Ayodhya

Tracking that species of Hindutvawadi, obsessively trolling the Net, looking for slights to the faith