Profile of Mukul Kesavan
It’s a palm-sized electronic alter ego. It both chains us and invests us with a new freedom.
A hundred essential books, chosen by our jury, and the reasons they should be read—and reread
Hipshot on the zebra by amber light/Bum cocked, knees spread for room, a little bent/He picks away at his crotch in plain sight/With unhurried, scientific detachment/This isn't a preliminary to sooing/So what's he doing?
My new year begins in mid-July and has done for 30 years, ever since I signed up to study history in Delhi University in the mid-1970s...