P.A. Krishnan

Jun 10, 2021 P.A. Krishnan

Not the ‘LA International Airport’ of Susan Raye fame. The only sound was of the trolley wheels. 'We are...

Jul 31, 2020 P.A. Krishnan

This tribute to lower caste Mrdangam makers, who had an unequal relationship with Brahmin artistes, is an...

Feb 05, 2020 P.A. Krishnan

A Tamil classic doesn’t extol the central act of class violence; it speaks of life and futility

Oct 23, 2019 P.A. Krishnan

The winds are favourable...Savarkar is enveloped in a biographic embrace. Sampath is digressively elaborate;...

Sep 26, 2019 P.A. Krishnan

Not as famous like a Jinnah or Ambedkar, Periyar fervently criticised Mahatma Gandhi but his extraordinary...

Oct 17, 2018 P.A. Krishnan

Accessible, humane, unsparingly critical—this is a clear-headed account of the years that made the Mahatma,...

Aug 29, 2018 P.A. Krishnan

The Bahmanis, Vijayanagara, Shivaji...a fine history of the Deccan bristles with cruel and grand potentates,...

Jun 20, 2018 P.A. Krishnan

A lucid book on this greatest of Indian philosophers is to be lauded. But the attempt at a scientific...

Dec 21, 2017 P.A. Krishnan

Sangam-era violence was of tribal variety. Later it was between religions. Today, it’s caste riots that...

Sep 29, 2017 P.A. Krishnan

For a book set during the times of Rajendra Chola, Empire teems with the most ghastly anachronisms. Yet it...