Shanti Behari Seth was born on the eighth day of the eighth month in the eighth year of the twentieth century; he died two years before its close. He ... More...
Janet Ganguli grew up in England listening to stories about her grandfather who had spent twenty-five years in India during the British Raj. After tra... More...
In 1953, Usha Bhagat, a young kindergarten teacher, left her job to become secretary to Indira Gandhi. It was an association that would continue, with... More...
Daniel O’Connor and his wife arrived in India in 1963, virtually the last days of the Nehruvian era, to live and work at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.... More...
The habit of keeping a diary has led me into trouble more than once,’ writes Ruskin Bond in the introduction to this journal of a year in his hometown... More...
On a sleepy Sunday afternoon in March 1857, an agitated sepoy in the English East India Company’s 34th Native Infantry marched on to the parade ground... More...
The absorbing story of how one of the greatest directors of our time began his film-making career
‘Ray’s fascinating account of how he made the (A... More...
Somadeva’s Kathasaritsagara, the Epics, the Puranas, as well as folklore are among the sources of India’s long tradition of storytelling. Down the age... More...
Yesteryear\'s giant of Kannada literature, Adya Rangacharya—or Shriranga, as he came to be known—had many such epiphanic moments. That was how the chi... More...
Out of Place is a record of an essentially lost or forgotten world, that of my early life. Several years ago I received what seemed to be a fatal medi... More...