Anuja Chandramouli: The Hopeless Blogger!

  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 ...

  Every single day, without fail, there is a violent, gender - based crime that forces us to sit up and take notice, jaded though we’ve beco...

  I am always surprised at the surprise evinced by so many when godawful things go down with clockwork like regularity. Recently a stampede ...

  Short stories have been getting the short end of the stick, with publishers refusing to even consider carefully curated collections in thi...

  If nothing else, the Age of Information has belched out a buttload of entitled blockheads who demand the most current news incessantly. In...

  One of the most beautiful things about art is its ability to transcend human limitations and the grotesquerie of existence, even while exp...

  Once upon a simpler time, it simply wasn’t done to wash one’s dirty laundry in public. But nowadays, when the only thing people cannot tol...

  When you refer to The One, there are many who will think of the really cute and supposedly nice Keanu Reaves who played Neo in the Matrix ...

  In Gods, Guns and Missionaries , Manu Pillai takes on the monumental task of encapsulating the complex, ever – evolving mishmash of endles...

  An exclusive quality of Indians living in India is the ability to look the other way when we ourselves are severely inconvenienced or pres...

  Dear Indians, Forget the New Year resolutions you made with impractical, turbo-enthusiasm to excavate the best version of yourselves fro...