Books

He has lived in the US for close to three decades and has written more than half a dozen books in English, but author Amitava Kumar remains a proud ...

Noted writer, editor and literary critic Antara Dev Sen is set to chair the jury for the 2014 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. Along with her the ...

Music composer and singer Shankar Mahadevan launched the Dictionary of English: The Udder Side by author P.V. Subramaniam. The book, published by ...

Robert Kanigel’s biography of mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan is being published in Malayalam. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will release the ...

Only growth and efficiency can generate the resources for tackling poverty.

It would certainly be a lot easier to download e-books on to a Kindle or an iPad. No book can run out of stock at any point in time in the e-world.

Anuja Chauhan’s bestselling books are a rib-tickling concoction of Hindi and English.

Some books leave you with a deep sense of sadness — even while they make you chuckle, marvel at the beauty or tenderness of a thought or human ...

The mistake of shipping weed to India along with a consignment of wheat from the USA during the 1950s inadvertently gifted India a beautiful species ...

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was quite argumentative as a child and often defied his teachers but showed leadership qualities from an early ...

The controversy surrounding two Italian marines facing murder charges in India has triggered tensions between both the nations and now a journalist ...

With China-bashing — for the world economy’s many ills — being the flavour of the season, the book under review has come not a day too soon. The book ...

The dormant debate on the merits and demerits of different models of development has been revived, at least in India, following the publication of ...

India’s founding fathers drew inspiration from ancient texts and artefacts. But they tiptoed around the Islamic tradition.

Ajit Balakrishnan, founder of Rediff.com, recently launched his book The Wave Rider. The book helps connect a lot of dots for those who want to ...

Imtiaz Gul uses his excellent contacts and reach to portray Osama Bin Laden, considered the world’s No. 1 terrorist until the Americans took him out.

Indian bureaucrats, either in the civil or in foreign service, are not usually given to writing their memoirs, lest they jangle the nerves of their ...

“The world must know what happened, and never forget.” General Eisenhower said this while visiting Nazi death camps in 1945 but is just as good for ...

I. G. Patel’s remarkable quality of being willing to change his views when confronted with new data served him well in his policy-making role.I. G. Patel was clearly not enamoured by all the talk of India becoming a superpower in years to come. He favoured a more modest role for the country.

Who is Vladimir Putin? While the question often attracts answers like “Russian President”, “former KGB spy” and “tough-talking ultra-nationalist”, ...

There is something magical about Mumbai. Over decades, many people have tried to capture the spirit of the city through Bollywood movies, Hindi ...

The sub-prime crisis has impacted more people worldwide than any other crisis since the Great Depression. Flawed Government policies and unscrupulous ...

For entrepreneurs, ‘finished’ is an F-word, write Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha in The Start-up of You (www.landmark onthenet.com). We are all works ...

Age is irrelevant, avers John A. Dembitz in It’s the People! (www.landmarkonthenet.com). In his view, “It is the competence of the individual, their ...