The Rajiv I knew, is a partisan but spirited, well-documented account of Rajiv Gandhi's time as the prime minister and subsequently for a brief period also as the opposition leader though it doesn’t answer the question from the subtitle: And why he was the most misunderstood prime minister.
The book challenges the claims that the leader was a "Hindu hero" as well as that his was an "Indian nationalism" with a "communal twist"
TV Santhosh’s works, on display in Ernakulam, Kerala, seek to question our understanding of our surroundings and ask who the real enemy is
Predators and their victims attach more survival value to working together than to going solo
The Delonix regia, to give it its scientific name, is a native of Madagascar, and even though it is now widely distributed across the tropics and subtropics, it was not known outside of Madagascar till about 200 years ago
In an exclusive interview with Sriram Veera & Sandeep Dwivedi, days before he was left out of the Indian squad for the T20 World Cup, Shubman Gill shares how he deals with success and failure. From the child prodigy who never failed, he is now a seasoned star at peace with the game’s inglorious uncertainties.
In an exhibition that is on till May 18 at the India International Centre in Delhi, The Raza Foundation has brought together works of over 25 artists to celebrate Gond Qalam in its traditional form and the contemporary interventions that have influenced it over the decades
The 10-day festival will premiere about 40 feature films, including Jayant Somalkar's Marathi-language film Sthal and Atul Sabharwal’s spy drama, Berlin (2023)
The big takeaway from teaching your children how to behave with empathy and kindness around animals is how they hopefully will behave around people too. And that’s a win-win all the way
The Buddhist philosophy of selective watering suggests that a child has both negative seeds (anger, fear, shame) and wholesome seeds (love, joy, generosity) and what will blossom depends on which seeds we choose to water and nurture
The book is an attempt to recover the strength of Rushdie, the person, occluded by Rushdie, the targeted writer
The Vishwanath temple is the focal point of the book and city, with ample pictures of priests, devotees, idols and the banks of the Ganges
With a mobile 1BHK, kitted out with a kitchen, bathroom and bed, a growing number of Indians are hitting the road with their caravans. Be it an Isuzu truck, or a Maruti Eeco, anything goes in this democratic form of travel
Authors former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan and economist Rohit Lamba ask one central question: How should India’s economy grow? How do we improve quality of growth, health and education standards, and wages?
Written in crisp journalistic prose, it draws from the author's love for the city
In his centenary year, a look at the life and legacy of Francis Newton Souza, one of India’s most influential modern painters who defied social and artistic conventions
In FN Souza's fractured and fragmented images, we confront our dark selves
It is her ability to be disruptive without being destructive, to deliver without fuss, to come out victorious without a fight, that is trademark Shobhaa De
The Yamuna Biodiversity Park shows the way forward – through the meticulous planning of horticulturists, tackling issues of soil salinity and contending with the invasive Vilayati Keekar
From works depicting the horrors of the Bengal famine to capturing the sights and sounds of the streets of Kolkata, a retrospective of Gobardhan Ash celebrates the artist who drew what he saw
As the country celebrates regional new years, a look at how the kinship of food ties communities and languages, one ingredient at a time
Here's the latest Indian fiction and non-fiction you must read, from mysteries to thrillers to memoirs
How does one make choices? What are the considerations? How do we achieve our aspirations beyond serendipity and merit? Should one use networks, contacts, or just leave it to god? In the case of Subbarao, the choices were real – between family and career, between vertical growth and horizontal diversity of experience; the price he had to pay
The books is a personal history of his long association – mostly, literary, but also collegian – with editor-publisher, Rukun Advani
The problem is that macaques have pretty short and extremely incendiary fuses: if you don’t give them what they want, you’re asking for trouble