Sai Paranjpye, whose memoir of her creative life, A Patchwork Quilt, is just out, talks about the making of classic films Sparsh and Chashme Buddoor, her great appreciation of inte ... Read more
Sai Paranjpye, whose memoir of her creative life, A Patchwork Quilt, is just out, talks about the making of classic films Sparsh and Chashme Buddoor, her great appreciation of intelligent actors, and her irritation at being called a "woman director". Read more
Sai Paranjpye, whose memoir of her creative life, A Patchwork Quilt, is just out, talks about the making of classic films Sparsh and Chashme Buddoor, her great appreciation of inte ... Read more
Sai Paranjpye, whose memoir of her creative life, A Patchwork Quilt, is just out, talks about the making of classic films Sparsh and Chashme Buddoor, her great appreciation of intelligent actors, and her irritation at being called a "woman director". Read more
In Food and Faith, Shoba Narayan explores history, myth, identity, and the role of spirituality in her life by partaking of sacred food in shrines across India - from Puri's bhog t ... Read more
In Food and Faith, Shoba Narayan explores history, myth, identity, and the role of spirituality in her life by partaking of sacred food in shrines across India - from Puri's bhog to Amritsar's langar to Jewish halva in Mumbai, to Goa's feasts, and Jaipur's rabdi! Read more
In Food and Faith, Shoba Narayan explores history, myth, identity, and the role of spirituality in her life by partaking of sacred food in shrines across India - from Puri's bhog t ... Read more
In Food and Faith, Shoba Narayan explores history, myth, identity, and the role of spirituality in her life by partaking of sacred food in shrines across India - from Puri's bhog to Amritsar's langar to Jewish halva in Mumbai, to Goa's feasts, and Jaipur's rabdi! Read more
Tim I Gurung, author of Ayo Gorkhali; A History of the Gurkhas, talks about the origins of the community, their contribution to the Allied victory in both world wars and the subseq ... Read more
Tim I Gurung, author of Ayo Gorkhali; A History of the Gurkhas, talks about the origins of the community, their contribution to the Allied victory in both world wars and the subsequent shabby treatment of war veterans, their role in saving lives during the Partition, and their fight for parity within the British army. Read more
Tim I Gurung, author of Ayo Gorkhali; A History of the Gurkhas, talks about the origins of the community, their contribution to the Allied victory in both world wars and the subseq ... Read more
Tim I Gurung, author of Ayo Gorkhali; A History of the Gurkhas, talks about the origins of the community, their contribution to the Allied victory in both world wars and the subsequent shabby treatment of war veterans, their role in saving lives during the Partition, and their fight for parity within the British army. Read more
Catch Manjula Narayan in conversation with Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi whose new book, Loss, is a memoir of grief that looks at the deaths of his father, his mother and a beloved p ... Read more
Catch Manjula Narayan in conversation with Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi whose new book, Loss, is a memoir of grief that looks at the deaths of his father, his mother and a beloved pet. Lyrical, deeply insightful, and occasionally savagely funny, Loss examines the questions we all grapple with and leads the reader to an understanding of how death imbues life with meaning. Read more
Catch Manjula Narayan in conversation with Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi whose new book, Loss, is a memoir of grief that looks at the deaths of his father, his mother and a beloved p ... Read more
Catch Manjula Narayan in conversation with Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi whose new book, Loss, is a memoir of grief that looks at the deaths of his father, his mother and a beloved pet. Lyrical, deeply insightful, and occasionally savagely funny, Loss examines the questions we all grapple with and leads the reader to an understanding of how death imbues life with meaning. Read more
Yudhishtira as a man who hasn't got his due, Karna as a tragic hero, Eklavya as a representative of the marginalised, the horror of Draupadi's cheerharan, Duryodhana's growth from ... Read more
Yudhishtira as a man who hasn't got his due, Karna as a tragic hero, Eklavya as a representative of the marginalised, the horror of Draupadi's cheerharan, Duryodhana's growth from a petty prince to a generous hero, and the Mahabharata as a complex text about good people who don't always do good things and bad people who are sometimes honourable - Arshia Sattar, who has retold the Mahabharata for Children, talks about all that on this week's Books & Authors podcast. Read more
"To be healthy, eat local, seasonal, traditional. Life is very simple unless we allow the weight loss and food industry to complicate things for us", says Rujuta Diwekar. Catch Ru ... Read more
"To be healthy, eat local, seasonal, traditional. Life is very simple unless we allow the weight loss and food industry to complicate things for us", says Rujuta Diwekar. Catch Rujuta Diwekar, celebrity nutritionist and author of Eating in the Age of Dieting, in conversation with Manjula Narayan, National Books Editor, HT, on this week's Books & Authors podcast. Read more
