Drawing the line: This book of animal stories charms with its words as well as its illustrations

In his final column on books, Gopalkrishna Gandhi reads ‘Animalia Indica’ and marvels at the illustrations

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· Jun 29, 2019 · 08:30 am

This book is a fascinating walk through the lives of Indian cities told through their trees

In this month’s column, Gopalkrishna Gandhi reads ‘Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities’ by Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli.

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· May 25, 2019 · 07:00 am

The Notre Dame fire has created a new Victor Hugo moment for lovers of literature and history

In this month’s column, the Notre Dame fire takes Gopalkrishna Gandhi back to Victor Hugo’s work immortalising the cathedral.

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· Apr 27, 2019 · 07:30 am

One hundred years of the Jallianwala Bagh massacre: What Tagore wrote in 1919 resounds today

In this month’s column, Gopalkrishna Gandhi re-reads two letters that Rabindranath Tagore wrote, before and after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of April 13.

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· Mar 30, 2019 · 07:30 am

This novel ‘should not have been written, but had to be written’, according to Gopalkrishna Gandhi

In this month’s column, Gopalkrishna Gandhi reads ‘The Fate of Butterflies’, Nayantara Sahgal’s new novel, with despair and a little hope.

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· Feb 23, 2019 · 07:00 am

Arun Shourie chronicles the despair and hope, the faith and frustration, of going to court in India

In this month’s column, Gopalkrishna Gandhi reads ‘Anita Gets Bail’, Shourie’s insightful book on the foibles of the judiciary.

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· Jan 26, 2019 · 08:30 am

A book on Ustad Vilayat Khan that is just like the maestro – flamboyant and confident

In this month’s column, Gopalkrishna Gandhi reads Namita Devidayal’s book on the sitarist.

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· Dec 29, 2018 · 08:30 am

In his book Kapil Sibal speaks for the Congress, but also for facts

In this month’s column, Gopalkrishna Gandhi passes Kapil Sibal’s ‘Shades Of Truth’ through a truth check.

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· Nov 24, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Karan Thapar has shown he is as much in control of the book as a medium as television

In this month’s column, Gopalkrishna Gandhi investigates whether the host of Devil’s Advocate can pull off his magic when writing too.

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· Oct 27, 2018 · 08:30 am

Letters may be gone, but K Natwar Singh’s book reminds us they are not forgotten

In this month’s column, Gopalkrishna Gandhi dips into a treasure trove of letters written by famous people to the former politician and writer K Natwar Singh.

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· Sep 29, 2018 · 07:00 am

Is liberalism an ignoramus in the high school of politics, outwitted by the illiberal bully?

Gopalkrishna Gandhi’s monthly column focusses on Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s pithy study on the twilight of liberalism.

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· Aug 25, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘Dare I Question?’: Hamid Ansari’s essays remind us of the ways the non-conformist is treated today

In the fourth of a monthly series on books and literature, Gopalkrishna Gandhi writes about the former vice-president’s new collection of essays.

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· Jul 28, 2018 · 03:30 pm