Elections 2019: Can Opposition unity create a ‘two-party’ situation, asks Prannoy Roy’s new book

‘The Verdict’: Prannoy Roy and Dorab R Sopariwala’s book mines past electoral trends to present the possibilities of the 2019 elections.

Prannoy Roy

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Dorab R Sopariwala

· Yesterday · 06:30 pm

The fate of a Lepcha spy who was sent to Tibet to survey the Yarlung Tsangpo (or the Brahmaputra)

Parimal Bhattacharya’s book, ‘Bells of Shangri-La’ recounts the adventures of scholars and spies in Tibet, including the famous Pandit Kinthup.

Parimal Bhattacharya

· Mar 20, 2019 · 06:30 pm

In this novel, something big enough to bite a human head off at one go is on the loose in Mumbai

Three gruesome murders sets detective Aditi Kashyap on the trail of werelions in Krishna Udaysankar’s fantasy crime novel ‘The Beast’.

Krishna Udaysankar

· Mar 20, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘I am the real religious one’: What Narendra Dabholkar wrote about his understanding of spirituality

An excerpt from the second volume of ‘The Case for Reason’, a translation of the rationalist and anti-superstition activist’s ‘Timiratuni Tejakade’.

Narendra Dabholkar

· Mar 19, 2019 · 08:30 am

From Vivekananda to Aurobindo, no one’s idea of Hinduism matched the Hindutva of the RSS

In ‘Hindu Rashtra’, Ashutosh traces the opposition between MS Golwalkar’s views and those of Mahatma Gandhi.

Ashutosh

· Mar 18, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘Outcaste’: This novel is based on a 1905 trial of a Namboodiri woman accused of adultery

Matampu Kunhukuttan’s Malayalam novel follows the life of a woman who knew the social consequences but did not flinch.

Matampu Kunhukuttan

· Mar 15, 2019 · 08:30 am

How Hindu nationalists built on the roots of majoritarianism in India and normalised public violence

Since the 1980s Hindutva discourse increasingly adopted a style of forceful anger that foregrounded hurt sentiments or the theme of Hindu pride.

Thomas Blom Hansen

· Mar 14, 2019 · 05:30 pm

Insider account: Why India didn’t attack Pakistan after 26/11

Shivshankar Menon, India’s foreign secretary at the time of terror attacks in 2008, explains why the Indian government decided against overt military action.

Shivshankar Menon

· Mar 13, 2019 · 06:30 pm

The Indian tendency to stretch time becomes a boon when aliens arrive in this science fiction story

Manjula Padmanbhan’s ‘Flexi-Time’ is one of the stories in a new collection of South Asian science fiction.

Manjula Padmanabhan

· Mar 12, 2019 · 08:30 am

The Tamil epic 'Silappadikaram’ gets a new life for today’s readers in this modern retelling

An excerpt from ‘The Prince’: Samhita Arni’s version of the classic saga.

Samhita Arni

· Mar 11, 2019 · 08:30 am

Repressed households, party control and crony competition: Raghuram Rajan on the China model

An excerpt from the former Reserve Bank of India governor’s new book on the global economy.

Raghuram G Rajan

· Mar 07, 2019 · 08:30 am

How SD Burman became as famous as the singers he worked with despite his thin, nasally voice

In edited excerpts from a reissued biography on SD Burman (known as Dada), the debate is reopened: was he a singer-composer or a composer-singer?

HQ Chowdhury

· Mar 07, 2019 · 08:15 am