When Premchand’s Godaan (The Gift of a Cow) was first published in 1936, it was hailed as a brilliant evocation of the rural-urban divide of...

That the Indian news industry is a many-headed beast accustomed to extreme levels of self-contradiction is not unknown. The national media –...

We have come a long way since Jane Austen first published Pride and Prejudice in 1813 and the British literati heaved sighs soaked in 19th century...

Vintage British awkwardness, once a virtue, has now been supplanted by brazen approach & publishing houses have come up with ‘sexed up’ versions...

As news reports and expert analyses on the Boston Marathon blasts kept pouring in since the heinous incident rocked the world on 15 April, a strangely...

In his book of essays Clearing A Space, Amit Chaudhuri – literary critic, essayist, novelist and now city-memoirist – recounts that by the time of...

Former British prime minister and the poster girl of Conservative Party, Margaret Thatcher, has died following a stroke. She was 87. Considered as one...

That the Orwellian paradise called United States of America has a massive public relations machine called Hollywood is nothing new, but the collusion...

A staunch atheist accustomed to reading, and often agreeing with, the likes of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the late Chris Hitchens, The Aum Of All...

In a judgement hailed as ‘historic’ by the government, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the patent plea by the Swiss pharmaceutical company...

Chinua Achebe, Africa’s jewel and the globally venerated Nigerian writer, statesman and dissident, who birthed modern African writing with his...

The irony of humility is that it shows only in the background of great riches, and we manage to locate it only when it appears more brilliantly in the...