A copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude – old, tattered if you’re old, tattered; spanking new, smelling of the cauldron of civilisation, if you’re...

Gabriel Garcia ‘Gabo’ Marquez, Nobel laureate and often hailed as the ‘most important writer in Spanish since Miguel Cervantes’, is no more. He died...

His appeal crossed over from enormous critical acclaim to staggering mass appeal. Putting Latin American literature firmly on the global literary map,...

What has been often apologetically dismissed as Ambedkar’s utopia – his ‘impracticable, unfeasible dream’ of caste-less society – his ‘anti-Hindu’...

Even as the West’s deepest fears about Vladimir Putin recreating the country of his youth, rebuilding Soviet Russia deal by deal, are at best...

Right at the outset of Playing the Nation Game, Benjamin Zachariah – historian, musician, playwright and occasional poet – tells us why we do not need...

One of India’s best known scribe, whose keen and astute gossip was scathing cultural commentary on one hand and stellar pieces of genuine literary...

The manner in which every global crisis is covered in the media, both Western and local, gives away the subterranean politics beneath the moves,...

The imminent ‘pulping’ of Wendy Doniger’s The Hindus: An Alternative History sounds an ominous bell. It is really two things at once: one, the...

As Barack Obama signed an executive order on the first full day of his tenure as the 44th president of United States of America, in January 2009, the...

There’s something extremely intriguing about a sudden weather snap in the whole of North America, including its warm southern tip and the plummeting...

Sikkim is back on the literary map. After a scintillating debut with The Gurkha’s Daughter, a short story collection that brought us closer to life...