On Doing It With Class
After spending the good part of an afternoon looking all over the hill side, the postman knocked on our door asking if we knew of a Mrs. Aili. ‘Never heard of her,’ said I, watching him go on his way. Then
Jaya, Vijaya, Bharat and Mahabharat
As Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, the award-winning author of ‘The Radiance of a Thousand Suns’ puts it: no story can exist in the world if it has not already been told in the Mahabharata. But the Mahabharata is much more than all
No Time For Catcalls
he mid 1960s arrived, and swollen with funds our municipality took the plunge and started a post graduate college. While the new building came up, Summer House served as a base to start classes. Its upper floor atop the rabbit-warren
‘Dastaan-e-Mughal-e-Azam’: Keswani explores the Spirit of an Age
Something extraordinary took place when, in the short list announcements for the VoW 2021 book awards, one extraordinary individual Rajkumar Keswani’s name appeared twice: both in the category of Hindi non-fiction as well as translations to Hindi. Keswani’s book ‘Dastaan-e-Mughal-e
From my Bookshelf
Akshara (अक्षर) is a Sanskrit word which means ‘imperishable, indestructible, fixed and immutable’. While it may lie in dormancy and hibernation for centuries, it carries within it the potential of resurrection. While the original Akshara is immutable, the context is
Raza centenary: The artist who brought literature, music and painting together
As poet Ashok Vajpeyi says, ‘Raza was always in love, with the world, with colours, with art, with poetry, with friends’ “I greeted the sun and asked it to smile at you.” This is not a line from Pablo Neruda’s love poems