Reveries of a LITERARY EPICURE

BY PARSA VENKATESHWAR RAO JR This book may appear an indulgence in literary stuff. But it is not. There are deeper issues of life, of...

ODE TO A LOST WORLD

Invoking Kolkata when it was Calcutta before the days of the ’90s reforms, the author arouses memories of a different place and a different time...

DEMYSTIFYING JINNAH

This is indeed a weighty book – both literally and metaphorically. This is how I described it when introducing Ishtiaq Ahmed at the (online) Kolkata...

Protecting the Jumbos

The book makes an impassioned plea for saving elephants that have been part of India’s historical memory from the days of the Harappans, with enormous...

The America Sojourn

A deeply stirring excerpt from a much-talked-about biography of Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Narayan penned by historian Bimal Prasad and author Sujata Prasad

The long-winded story of Lang

understand how the East India Company (EIC) imagined itself and the country it was ruling on behalf of a distant sovereign till 1858 should get...