Books & Authors
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Khilafat revisited
Friday, November 27, 2009
Under the vast Ottoman Empire, remarkable, diverse, and tolerant societies of Jews
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OPINION: Jaswant Singh’s Jinnah
Friday, November 27, 2009
IN his controversial book Jinnah: India — Parition — Independence, Jaswant Singh writes that, ‘Jinnah
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FICTION: Dan Brown cracks another code
Friday, November 27, 2009
For months, Twitter and Facebook were filled with teaser puzzles and micro mysteries as part of a mass marketing
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FICTION: One too many
Friday, November 27, 2009
AS it stands, Bulgaria doesn’t exactly loom large in the list of favoured locations about which to write
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To be frank
Friday, November 27, 2009
‘Some people conjure spirits. I conjure bodies,’ we are promised at the start of this book.
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NON-FICTION: Crystal clear
Friday, November 27, 2009
Rumi’s Mathnavi has mesmerised innumerable readers and Kamla K. Kapur is one of them.
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EXCERPT: The inception of the movement
Friday, November 27, 2009
ON October 30, 1918, Turkey was forced to sign an armistice at Mudros, following its defeat at the hands
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URDU LITERATURE: One woman’s reality
Friday, November 27, 2009
Not for nothing did Amrita Pritem name her thus. For to read Afzal Tauseef’s autobiography
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COLUMN: A master of all
Friday, November 27, 2009
Writing for children is an art unto itself. Most of our publishers treat this subject in a light way
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The realm of magic
Sunday, November 22, 2009
The cupbearers of nocturnal revelries and bibbers from the cup of inspiration pour the vermilion
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FICTION: In defence of kid-lit
Sunday, November 22, 2009
One day when I was about 12, my mother caught me re-reading a worn out copy of Mr Galliano’s Circus
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FICTION: A long journey
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Sohrab Homi Fracis has lived two lives. In the first half he did what was expected of him
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AUTHORS: Lucy Maud Montgomery b. November 20, 1874
Sunday, November 22, 2009
She is best known as the creator of the Anne of Green Gables series, the first book of which
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Enid Blyton d. November 28, 1968
Sunday, November 22, 2009
ON November 16, 2009, just days before her 41st death anniversary, BBC aired a 90-minute drama
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HISTORY: A royal riddle
Sunday, November 22, 2009
History provides us with facts, we put meaning into them. Sometimes it so happens that the same
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