‘Churchill was no friend of India but he didn’t orchestrate Bengal famine’
British author, historian Diana Preston says she doesn’t believe Churchill orchestrated Bengal famine, but was ‘undoubtedly slow to respond to its seriousness’...
Agitating students have been militant and violent: JNU V-C
NEW DELHI: The ongoing agitation at the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) is “unwarranted”, “undemocratic” and even “unlawful”, says Vice-Chancellor M....
Savarkar was a patriot and his legacy should not become political football
The book helps unravel the enigma called Savarkar, who comes out as an organic whole. His mercy petitions and bravado...
Nehru’s Balochistan blooper was as disastrous as his Himalayan blunder
‘Maybe the Nehru government failed to comprehend the strategic significance of an independent Balochistan’. New Delhi: Jawaharlal Nehru’s Balochistan...
There’s a case for temple in Ayodhya but not at mosque’s cost: Tharoor
New Delhi: When senior Congress leader and former Union minister Shashi Tharoor came out with the book, Why I am...
Private lives of the British Empire’s power couple
British author Andrew Lownie has written a joint biography of the distinguished and controversial Mountbatten couple. He speaks to Utpal...
Still stand by CAG finding of Rs 1.76L cr loss in 2G auction: Vinod Rai
The then CAG of India has accused the CBI of not doing enough to prove the charges. New...
Dalrymple’s Anarchy shows where our historians have gone wrong
New Delhi: In 1835, when Lord Macaulay talked about creating a class of persons “Indian in blood and colour, but...
KVIC helps boost India’s honey exports
Its efforts to improve the state of beekeeping have helped increase the volume of honey exports from 29.6 to 51.5...
Why Kashmir needed azaadi from Article 370
The article of faith for religious and liberal fanatics has fanned Muslim extremism, victimhood and alienation in the garb of...
Why Left and liberals are not right about Indian Right
New Delhi: Sir Jadunath Sarkar in his seminal book, Shivaji and His Times, recalled Jahangir as “flattering himself that he...
How Amitbhai became the Shah of Indian politics
The book is a first real insight into the man who took the nation by storm in 2014 and has...
‘Religion and liberalism go together in our culture’
Through his series of bestselling books, Amish has reintroduced India’s ancient epics into the cultural mainstream. He speaks to Utpal Kumar...
Khadi commission creates jobs, fights terrorism and pollution
New Delhi: From being seen as a fabric of Gandhian austerity to being a fashionably cool stuff, khadi has come...
‘Rahul will continue to guide the party along with new president’
Congress leader and former External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid speaks to The Sunday Guardian. New Delhi: “You are asking...
Shah cracks the whip, but Hurriyat isn’t complaining
Separatist groups led by Hurriyat refused to give a shutdown call for the first time in the past three decades....
BJP’s move on triple talaq ban stumps Congress leadership
New Delhi: If the enthusiasm with which the BJP pushed the triple talaq Bill in the Lok Sabha on last...
Chaos, crises and uncanny possibilities of Gun Island
Amitav Ghosh’s latest novel Gun Island straddles the past and the present, while pointing towards an uncertain future shaped by...
Modi scores big on terror as Imran looks for cover
New Delhi: In his 1968 book, Asian Drama, based on his experiences in the subcontinent, Swedish Nobel Laureate, Gunnar Myrdal...
Amit Shah gears up to crack the big Kashmir puzzle
New Delhi: When India got Independence in 1947, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), tucked in a right corner of...
Goddess of generalisations fails Gandhi and Ambedkar
Roy’s book fails to grasp the complexities of the two gigantic characters. It leads to the unravelling of the superstructure...
Forgotten massacre of Dalit refugees in communist Bengal
Book exposes the dark underbelly of the Left Front that ruled West Bengal for over three decades; it proves how...
‘Nonfiction has to work within the confines of facts’
Crime writer S. Hussain Zaidi, who has written extensively about the nefarious activities of Mumbai’s criminal underworld, speaks to Utpal...
Lalu’s last-ditch effort to regain lost halo
The author, to his credit, does reveal a few not-so-savoury moments and concedes mistakes, but those are far and few....
