Anuja Chandramouli: The Hopeless Blogger!

  Why are so many older women hateful to the younger ones feeding into the general assumption that women of a certain vintage are crone – li...

  When Vijay made his entry into Tamil cinema as a leading man in Naalaiya Theerpu (1992), directed by his father S.A. Chandrasekhar not ma...

  Beauty and youth eternal is everything. Even in a world ravaged by war, famine, poverty, global warming, pollution, substance abuse, human...

  The War Elephants of Trigarta by Sarita Mandanna, is part of the Bold Chronicles series which seeks to awaken a love of history and stori...

  Rima Hooja’s The Emperor’s General: The Life and Times of Raja Man Singh of Amber is a carefully sketched portrait of an extraordinary st...

  When the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint American – Israeli military operation, a lot of people all over the world cheered th...

  The development of vaccines has proved to be revolutionary and transformed our approach to eradicating life – threatening diseases and enh...

  January is that time of the year, when many insist on cloaking everything with a patina of putrid positivity. Most resolve to work on thei...

The pursuit of enlightenment is simplicity itself. Especially in Kaliyuga, where the asuric forces of misinformation, consumerism, global wa...

  Recently, I wrote a critical review of a book (about the unmitigated awfulness of the Mughals) and one of my issues with it among others w...

  Reading Babur: The Quest for Hindustan by Aabhas Maldahiyar is an excruciating experience that will test tolerance levels to the utmost. ...

  Everybody has their own version of hell. For those currently being brutalized and victimized in Gaza or any other active warzone, being st...

  Narayani Basu’s biography of K.M. Panikkar – A Man for all Seasons turns the spotlight on a key player in the story of Indian Independenc...

  In Alice Sees Ghosts by Daisy Rockwell, ghosts flit across the pages and in a whimsical departure from the prevailing norm, these manifes...

  Ashwin Sanghi’s uncanny ability to make modern day mountains out of mythological molehills is always entertaining and very instructive. Th...

  No thanks to Elon Musk, in all the time wasted on checking my Twitter (or whatever the tech bros are calling it now) feed, there is not a ...

  Ours is an age where inordinate space has been forcibly carved for the upkeep of individuality at the expense of collective wellbeing. Pol...

  I am trying and failing to remember the last time anyone agreed on anything in this country. SRK wins the national award for Jawan and fol...

  Devdutt Pattanaik's commendable body of work on the contemporary relevance of Indian mythology is a formidable one which has made the ...