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Firang Historian

arindam — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:21:21 +0000

Academic Jonathan Gil Harris is writing the history of the poor Europeans, as distinct from White Mughals, who settled here and became Indian

26 May 2012
BY: Jyotirmoy Talukdar

Whose Hostages?

arindam — Sat, 26 May 2012 07:10:58 +0000

A brilliant account of the 1995 kidnappings of six foreign nationals in Kashmir reveals shocking details of the involvement of the Indian State

26 May 2012
BY: Rahul Pandita

Reading the Reader

arindam — Thu, 17 May 2012 16:02:55 +0000

On Tagore is as much about reading Rabindranath as it is about Amit Chaudhuri reading himself as a reader

19 May 2012
BY: Sumana Roy

The Long and Short of a Story

arindam — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:43:12 +0000

A novel is like building a house and a short story like furnishing a room, declares Anjum Hasan, who now has both under her belt

19 May 2012
BY: Sohini Chattopadhyay

Mama Em’s Cope Book

arindam — Tue, 08 May 2012 15:51:58 +0000

In literature focused on insanity, the gaze seems to have shifted from the insane. The patient is no longer the victim; that status now belongs to the caregiver

12 May 2012
BY: Kalpish Ratna

The Constant Writer

arindam — Sun, 06 May 2012 15:53:43 +0000

Ramachandra Guha on the thrills of research, the insecurity of academics and their love of jargon, and why he doesn’t take holidays

5 May 2012
BY: Vaibhav Vats

Global Capital Rules, Okay?

arindam — Sun, 06 May 2012 14:49:47 +0000

Not quite. Which explains both the strength and weakness of this ‘economic travelogue’ that tries to spot tomorrow’s winners

5 May 2012
BY: Aresh Shirali

Between Pre-modern and Modern Times

arindam — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:59:07 +0000

The adventures of Musharraf Ali Farooqi, who quit his job as a journalist in Pakistan to work in a packaging factory in Toronto

28 April 2012
BY: Basharat Peer

Meeting God after 10 Years

arindam — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:35:24 +0000

An extract from the forthcoming novel, God’s Own Progeny, by Pakistani journalist Murtaza Razvi, who was found murdered at his home last week

28 April 2012
BY: Murtaza Razvi

The Lovey-Dovey Boys

arindam — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:49:20 +0000

A bunch of young male writers has come to dominate India’s romance charts, once the preserve of female writers

21 April 2012
BY: Aastha Atray Banan