Is a River Alive? unfolds across three main landscapes.
India’s first bull run followed a pattern that was to repeat itself in subsequent episodes. Initially, a displacement occurs, which changes people’s belief in the future.
Bhaskar Chattopadhyay has launched his own imprint titled Cipher Books (see logo). It is registered in Canada. The first book to be published under this imprint is The Wings of the Nike.
With attention spans falling, few people have the patience or capacity for concentration to read and understand information in a more focussed manner
Swami Mukundananda on his new book 'Bhagavad Gita for Everyday Living: Selected Verses with Key Takeaways', what the Bhagavad Gita teaches us, and its relevance for modern living in the age of artificial intelligence and more scientific discoveries.
Brian Klaas grew up in Minnesota, earned his DPhil at Oxford, and is now a professor of global politics at University College London. He is a contributing writer for The Atlantic, host of the award-winning Power Corrupts podcast, and frequent guest on national television.
Book Extract: Excerpted with permission from the publisher The New Age of Sexism, Laura Bates, published by Simon and Schuster India
Book Extract: Excerpted with permission from the publisher Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, Laura Spinney, published by William Collins.
South Asian History Professor at Emory University, US, Ruby Lal explains her approach to Mughal history; reading signs of Nur Jahan’s co-sovereignty in memoir, court documents and art history; and why erasures from history textbooks are a problem.
IIM-A Professor and author of 'The Power of Gold' Sundaravalli Narayanaswami explains why curtailing gold imports to manage current account deficit does not work in India, and how - when it comes to buying gold in India - culture eats economists for breakfast.
The fact that the canonical status of texts did not depend on the genre in which they were composed but rather on the function they were expected to perform in the sphere of their reception needs to be stressed when we consider the history of Sanskrit literature.
In Mongolia, the texture of sin felt less like a crime against God than against oneself. Three symbols are often associated with Danzanravjaa’s life and thought: a female figure representing his love of pleasure; a swan symbolizing the arts; and, lastly, a scorpion signifying the human potential for self-destructiveness
Different kind of Raj novel: UK Labour MP Alan Gemmell on imagining Britain as a colony of India in his political thriller '30th State', teaching the history of empire in British schools, and returning art to former colonies.
The Emergency period was akin to a dark age for the Hindi film industry. Film-makers were unfairly forced to navigate an environment of intense scrutiny with curtailed artistic expression, and any deviation from state-approved narratives could lead to severe consequence
Within weeks of India gaining independence, Kashmir resembled a battlefield because of Pakistan's repeated incursions to capture the Muslim-dominated princely state.
The book ‘[In]Complete Justice: The Supreme Court at 75, Critical Reflections’ critically examines the Supreme Court's evolution, highlighting its successes, failures, judicial activism, and key reforms. It explores the Court’s role in shaping India’s democracy, law, and social justice
Indian Classical Dance today: Dancer-choreographer Leela Samson unpacks histories and movements that have brought us to the present moment in Bharatnatyam, in 'Dance of Freedom: A Short History of Bharata Natyam'.
In the late 1960s, against the backdrop of the Vietnam war, CIA activities were increasingly scrutinized by the media and public officials.
Today, experts in the AI field are rather crudely characterized as ‘AI boomers’ or ‘AI doomers’.
Data is available on mouth-taping and sleep, though this is mainly focused on a small sample of obstructive sleep apnoea patients.
An anthology of Urdu short stories attempts to bust stereotypes around who writes in Urdu, and for whom. Editor Rakhshanda Jalil explains why she chose to keep the subtitle - Stories by Non-Muslim Urdu Writers - even though it made her 'cringe'.
The groundbreaking memoir from the inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is the story of our modern age.
Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Rick, and many others developed software that made computers intelligible to the common man. Bill Gates' Source Code is the story of that revolution, and that moment in tech history.
The legal limbo in which asylum seekers find themselves typically hinders them from working or establishing themselves in their host communities.
