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Book Review | As Gaza bleeds, a memoir!

Book Review | As Gaza bleeds, a memoir!

This compelling book is a composite of “memoir with a deeply historical narrative”. It presents both a fascinating...

3 Aug 2024 11:59 AM IST

In addition to such symbols of fraternity as staying frequently with Muslim hosts, such as Dr. Ansari, and his companions from Khilafat days, the Maulana brothers Mohammed and Shaukat Ali and acting as a pallbearer when their remarkable mother, Bi-Amma, dies,he spent his last night before he famously picked up a fistful of salt mixed with mud to defy the colonial regime at the Dandi home of Shiraz Abdullahbhai. By Arrangement

History & realpolitik, from the mouth of the Mahatma

The enduring theme of the Mahatma's concerns is the imperative of Hindu-Muslim unity

30 Dec 2023 4:31 PM IST

Cover image of Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussains work Nehru: The Debates that Defined India

Book Review | Account of Nehru's vision well compiled, deficiently...

In the Introduction, the author-compilers say Nehru's vaulting vision was in practice tempered by the 'more mundane...

26 Dec 2021 1:21 AM IST

Honour Bound: Adventures of an Indian Lawyer in the English Courts by Sarosh Zaiwalla HarperCollins, Rs 699

Superlawyer recounts brush with Bofors, success of his London dream

The Bachchans, says Zaiwalla, approached him to get their defamation suit against the Swedish journal heard in an...

9 Feb 2020 8:18 AM IST

Chanakyas View: understanding India in Transition, By Pavan K Varma Westland, Rs 699.

Bite-sized appraisals don't gel, reader searches for missing final...

This outdatedness has compounded the persisting truth of David's perceptive assessment that books of columns do not...

11 Aug 2019 4:05 AM IST

Hindu Rashtra By Ashutosh Westland Books, Rs 599

A call to arms for Gandhi's Hindus

As time moves forward, Hindu Rashtra will take its rightful place as a well-researched attempt to explain the unfolding...

21 April 2019 7:59 PM IST

Sleek Geek

If you’re looking for a fun and useful geeky item to complete your everyday attire then there’s nothing...

30 Oct 2015 9:37 PM IST