Operation West End, match fixing, sting operations in public interest, and the current state of Indian journalism, Aniruddha Bahal, author of A Taste for Trouble; Memories from Ano ... Read more
Operation West End, match fixing, sting operations in public interest, and the current state of Indian journalism, Aniruddha Bahal, author of A Taste for Trouble; Memories from Another Time and editor-in-chief of Cobrapost discusses all that in this week's Books & Authors podcast with Manjula Narayan. Read more
From Uchchaishravas to Prithviraj Chauhan's Chetak and Ranjit Singh's Laili, horses were an integral part of the Indian landscape, myth, and history. Author of The Tale of the Hors ... Read more
From Uchchaishravas to Prithviraj Chauhan's Chetak and Ranjit Singh's Laili, horses were an integral part of the Indian landscape, myth, and history. Author of The Tale of the Horse, Yashaswini Chandra talks of the import of horses from central Asia and Arabia, of the indigenous breeds like the Kathiawari and the Manipuri, of Shah Jahan's favourite piebald horse, of expert Maratha women equestrians, of artists like Bagta, and of Rajput legends in a fantastically horsey conversation on Books & Authors this week. Read more
From Uchchaishravas to Prithviraj Chauhan's Chetak and Ranjit Singh's Laili, horses were an integral part of the Indian landscape, myth, and history. Author of The Tale of the Hors ... Read more
From Uchchaishravas to Prithviraj Chauhan's Chetak and Ranjit Singh's Laili, horses were an integral part of the Indian landscape, myth, and history. Author of The Tale of the Horse, Yashaswini Chandra talks of the import of horses from central Asia and Arabia, of the indigenous breeds like the Kathiawari and the Manipuri, of Shah Jahan's favourite piebald horse, of expert Maratha women equestrians, of artists like Bagta, and of Rajput legends in a fantastically horsey conversation on Books & Authors this week. Read more
The Sindhi community in India has been stereotyped as both enterprising and hardworking, and cutthroat and flashy. Saaz Aggarwal, editor of 'Sindhi Tapestry; Reflections on the Sin ... Read more
The Sindhi community in India has been stereotyped as both enterprising and hardworking, and cutthroat and flashy. Saaz Aggarwal, editor of 'Sindhi Tapestry; Reflections on the Sindhi Identity', talks about Partition, cultural amnesia, and much more. Read more
The Sindhi community in India has been stereotyped as both enterprising and hardworking, and cutthroat and flashy. Saaz Aggarwal, editor of 'Sindhi Tapestry; Reflections on the Sin ... Read more
The Sindhi community in India has been stereotyped as both enterprising and hardworking, and cutthroat and flashy. Saaz Aggarwal, editor of 'Sindhi Tapestry; Reflections on the Sindhi Identity', talks about Partition, cultural amnesia, and much more. Read more
CID, Pyasa, Kagaz Ke Phool, Chaudvin ka Chand, Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam are all classics... Guru Dutt's short, tragic life, his huge creative output, his doomed relationships with his ... Read more
CID, Pyasa, Kagaz Ke Phool, Chaudvin ka Chand, Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam are all classics... Guru Dutt's short, tragic life, his huge creative output, his doomed relationships with his phenomenally talented wife Geeta Dutt and with Waheeda Rehman, the leading lady of his most memorable films - Yasser Usman looks at all that in this book on one of the great auteurs of commercial Hindi cinema. Read more
CID, Pyasa, Kagaz Ke Phool, Chaudvin ka Chand, Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam are all classics... Guru Dutt's short, tragic life, his huge creative output, his doomed relationships with his ... Read more
CID, Pyasa, Kagaz Ke Phool, Chaudvin ka Chand, Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam are all classics... Guru Dutt's short, tragic life, his huge creative output, his doomed relationships with his phenomenally talented wife Geeta Dutt and with Waheeda Rehman, the leading lady of his most memorable films - Yasser Usman looks at all that in this book on one of the great auteurs of commercial Hindi cinema. Read more
The electoral origins of Hindutva, the Vajpayee-Advani relationship, Hindu Fevicol, and the inability of the opposition to really understand the BJP... Vinay Sitapati, author of Ju ... Read more
The electoral origins of Hindutva, the Vajpayee-Advani relationship, Hindu Fevicol, and the inability of the opposition to really understand the BJP... Vinay Sitapati, author of Jugalbandi; The BJP Before Modi discusses all that in this week's Books & Authors podcast with Manjula Narayan. Read more
The electoral origins of Hindutva, the Vajpayee-Advani relationship, Hindu Fevicol, and the inability of the opposition to really understand the BJP... Vinay Sitapati, author of Ju ... Read more
The electoral origins of Hindutva, the Vajpayee-Advani relationship, Hindu Fevicol, and the inability of the opposition to really understand the BJP... Vinay Sitapati, author of Jugalbandi; The BJP Before Modi discusses all that in this week's Books & Authors podcast with Manjula Narayan. 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
