Published by the National Book Trust, India, Sidharth Mishra’s Processing News: A Career in Journalism is a perfect combination of accessibility and...

For someone with a heavy penchant for the word ‘drama’, Pranab Mukherjee – a long time Congress veteran, former cabinet minister and the current...

A lameduck president, with plummeting approval rates and no qualms about staging a comeback, can have superlative powers to act on his gut feel. The...

The United States has slipped to the number two position, a first in 142 years since it overtook Great Britain in 1872, and is currently worth USD...

Last week, I reviewed Ben Okri’s The Age of Magic, and found myself engrossed in a verbal dreamscape both endearing and intriguing. At no point, even...

Ben Okri wears many hats. Novelist (Booker prize-winning at that), poet, essayist, short story writer – he has dabbled, successfully, with formats...

There’s a ‘strange kind of performance anxiety’ in every labyrinthine road girdling Delhi, carrying in their hearts a ‘furious wail of horns’ and...

Even as in February this year, US president Barack Obama ordered full troop withdrawal from the dire straits of Afghanistan by the end of 2014, there...

Anderson, the then chairman of Union Carbide Corp, who arrived in Bhopal four days after the fatally poisonous methyl isocyanate leak on the...

What is it about ‘obscure’ French writers and their fertile rapport with the Nobel Prize in Literature? The Swedish Academy’s decision to confer the...

Evidently, the Bard of Stratford-upon-Avon has left such a scintillating oeuvre of high drama to be reinvented in different forms and mediums, fueling...

He spoke about neighbourly cooperation, multilateralism, dialogues with Pakistan, strict approach to counter terrorism, idea of a smart city, his...