"Vajpayee was a ruthless politician but he couldn't do with Modi what he did with others like Madhok and Govindacharya," says @sagarikaghose, author of 'Atal Bihari Vajpayee'. She ... Read more
"I'm sure there are a lot of people who are not very fond of me. I'm like that proverbial Trishanku figure," says film critic and Bollywood insider Anupama Chopra in a conversation ... Read more
The ethnic discrimination and genocide that preceded the birth of Bangladesh exactly 50 years ago, international apathy to the carnage, factionalism among the Bengali freedom fight ... Read more
Why some states need to shut down family planning departments, the possible story behind the improved sex ratio, the truth about the higher minority fertility rate, why states that ... Read more
The lotus in the Kashmiri Pandit imagination, the falcon in the north Indian Muslim one, the growth of East Pakistan Displaced Persons Colony... @AdrijaRoychow, author, 'Delhi, In ... Read more
Vaccine hesitancy, cannibalism and immunity to prion disease, viruses and depression, the streaked tulip crisis and the potyvirus, industrial foods and poor gut health... @pranayla ... Read more
Ordering a Rolls Royce through a catalogue, Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore endorsing products, companies advertising that their rivals use human waste to make soaps, the cachet of ... Read more
In August 1972, the Ugandan government under Idi Amin decreed that all Ugandan Asians must leave the country in 90 days and that they must take only what they could carry. Thousand ... Read more
'The Other Man' is possibly India's first happy gay novel. Set in Mumbai, this is the story of good looking, rich and successful Ved Mehta who's about to be engaged to the perfectl ... Read more
Speciesists on planets with three moons, pain merchants, murderous dolls in Calcutta, djinns in a future Dhaka, vengeful droids in Karachi, and othering and betrayal in Mumbai Prim ... Read more
