It would be an understatement of Chamundi Hill proportions to say that the University of Mysore, once the cradle of the country’s best and brightest, is plumbing the depths of …
Fifteen years ago I wrote my obituary—all right, the first draft of my obituary. I wrote it, not after I received an intimation of impending mortality, but after I read …
The economist Prabhat Patnaik has a fine piece in The Telegraph, Calcutta, on the growing anti-intellectualism in the world. There was a time in Delhi when an absent-minded professor, like …
There’s nothing quite like a nice literary spat, especially if it involves a global internet brand, two ancient civilisations, an irritated diplomat, and a newspaper column. Last month, The Hindu …
The former diplomat, writer and Congress MP Shashi Tharoor has featured in a Deutsche Welle TV interview with Tim Sebastian, the bulldog who hosted Hard Talk on BBC. After facing a …
The documentation of local culture in India is a vanishing art, especially in the English language. There are few go-to resources to get the real feel of the sights, sounds and smells of …
Nearly 40 years after the Mahabharata inspired him to pen Parva, the acclaimed Kannada writer, academic and ideologue S.L. Bhyrappa‘s latest work, Uttarakanda, based on the Ramayana, will be released tomorrow, January 16. ⇒Aravind Adiga …
