V O Chidambaram Pillai took on the mighty British Indian Navigation Company by floating the Swadeshi Steam Navigation Company. His struggle is the story of the early days of the Indian freedom movement in miniature
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Aurangzeb in Indira Parthasarathy’s play wants to make India into an indistinguishable whole. The India of his dream is ‘one country, one language and one religion’.
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Was Rajaraja, the imperial Chola king, now better known as Ponniyin Selvan, thanks to Mani Ratnam’s grand film, a Hindu?
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Our classical texts are replete with many different examples of friendships, from Andal to Kamban, Valmiki to Ghalib
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Our history books have to do justice to every region of India — but only for the sake of truth and for acquiring a balanced knowledge of our great land
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In this concluding volume of his sympathetic biography of the RSS icon, Vikram Sampath focuses on the Hindu Mahasabha’s role in the freedom movement and the Gandhi murder trial.
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Not the ‘LA International Airport’ of Susan Raye fame. The only sound was of the trolley wheels. 'We are in a deep hole,' said the lady at the counter. 'How’s India doing?' Well…
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This tribute to lower caste Mrdangam makers, who had an unequal relationship with Brahmin artistes, is an important social history of music
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A Tamil classic doesn’t extol the central act of class violence; it speaks of life and futility
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The winds are favourable...Savarkar is enveloped in a biographic embrace. Sampath is digressively elaborate; Purandare is concise and critical. Both are sympathetic.
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