Time River

My Name Is Gauhar Jan – these words added spontaneously at the end of a 78 rpm record by one of the most prolific artists of Gramophone Comp...

One of my few complaints against my favourite magazine The Economist is that they do not normally give much space to non-political, non-eco...

  One day one of my friends – a truly argumentative North Indian – went on fighting with me on Bengal caste system, more specifically about ...

These were not painted on paper or cloth….these intricate patterns were not designed in computer – all these were crafted in stone some 400 ...

1st December is World’s AIDS day and a release by UNAIDS on this occasion strangely brought to my mind images of two odd-ball icons of our ...

Nearly three decades (Published 1983) after its first publications, Sumit Sarkar’s Modern India remains the best summary of the most tumultu...

                   A few days back Sri BM Kankanwadi Ayurvedic College in Belgaum was suddenly in the eye of a global media storm. In this ...