Feb 16, 2002 How Indian is Indian writing in English? Far removed from our reality, say regional writers.
Free Speech: [Waffle of the Toffs]
May 19, 2001 He might have grudged visitors his famous coffee, but generosity pervaded his writing and spirit
Jun 02, 2001
Jun 09, 2001 A 'diplomatic thriller' which reveals that bureaucrats have no time for anything else but their squabbles
Feb 23, 2002 Sheela Reddy and photographer Madhu Kapparath witness animus and amiability at Neemrana
Mar 02, 2002 And a McDonald's is not interested in recherche chicken. He is interested in a meat patty that can feed thousands ... we're in a mass culture.
Jun 16, 2001 Nadir Shah's loot is now art historian Milo Beach's bounty—the 'Muraqqa-e-Gulshan', Emperor Jehangir's unseen opus, disinterred from Iran's cloistered royal galleries.
Jun 23, 2001 Why does India resist honest biographies? Because the idea of an overarching public space is absent.
Jun 23, 2001 There are no dearth of ego-inflating and self-puff hagiographies in the Indian book bazaar
Mar 16, 2002 Vikram Seth is versatility itself, whether he's doing verse, prose, or Chinese calligraphy
Mar 23, 2002 Evident value for historians and social scientists plus fascinating glimpses of contemporary life.
Jul 14, 2001 Borne along on the very personal voice of Urdu poetry, and now tossed about on a west wind
Apr 06, 2002 Inderjit Badhwar, a product of St Stephen's and Columbia School of Journalism, and former executive editor of India Today, on sex, truth and publishing:
Apr 06, 2002 The world's latest literary sensation, Hari Kunzru, 32, on his book The Impressionist, and the record advance for it.
Sep 01, 2001 A young, ambitious breed which excels in pretty pictures gives top artists a run for their money
Sep 08, 2001 Beef—it's the oldest shibboleth in the Indian mind. It is with textual evidence from Hindu, Buddhist and Jain canons that historian D.N. Jha takes on the sacred cow.
Oct 06, 2001 Foodie Salma Husain's chance discovery of the 16th century Alwan-e-Nemat affords a taste and glimpse of Jehangir's kitchen
Jun 01, 2002 Saccharine romance apart, a profoundly imaginative exploration of what life must have been like behind harem walls.
Jun 08, 2002 One more book on the man who "has gone out of his way, from time to time and far beyond the call of duty, to burnish his reputation as a cantankerous curmudgeon".
Oct 20, 2001 Has something else that's becoming rare among leading novelists: feeling.
Jun 15, 2002 Celebrating the poignancy of drabness -- and should you fall asleep, one can understand why.
Jun 22, 2002 Spirituality was his science and it was instilled early on in Kalam's life
