Ideas Without Boundaries.
By Kavita A Chhibber He is incredibly witty, has a phenomenal memory, endless energy and passion, and he is a very young 73, but not many people know that writer and poet extraordinaire, Javed Akhtar’s great great grandfather Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi was Mirza Ghalib’s contemporary and Read More …
He calls him self an atheist and a rationalist, his close friend Chanda calls him a “closet spiritualist” because she says, no atheist could have written a deeply spiritual song like “O paalan hare” (from Lagaan) to which he retorts, that he also wrote the Read More …
Sachin Bhowmick on Hrishikesh Mukherjee: The Incomparable Babu Moshai He has had one of the most successful careers in Indian Cinema. Almost everything his pen touches turns into gold-or should I say a golden story, and yet when Sachin Bhowmick tried to catch the legendary Read More …
It doesn’t matter if he is writing or he is speaking them, celebrated author and former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, Shashi Tharoor always casts a spell with his words. And when he took center stage, to speak about the transformation of India in Read More …
The South Asian Studies Program’s Annual Sheth Lecture in Indian Studies, at Emory University’s Glenn Memorial Auditorium was delivered on 25th February by Salman Rushdie who is currently Emory’s Distinguished Writer in Residence. The topic, “The Composite Artist,” had Rushdie transporting the audience into the Read More …
“Each day brings a new dawn, birds chirrup… there are days when the rain clouds burst forth, and rain showers fall finding their way into the verandah. Each day our help, Vinod, places the tea tray on the table. But the chair across me is Read More …
A transforming spiritual experience at a yoga meditation workshop led Robert Arnett to his passion — India. His journeys to the many villages and cities of India resulted in the magnificently created, award winning book India Unveiled that captures India’s spiritual, cultural and historical essence Read More …
He made headlines for withdrawing his latest magnum opus “The Glass Palace” from the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, but Amitav Ghosh, one of the most successful Indian-born authors, is more interested in depicting the truth than being mired in controversy. The prize-winning author explains why. “You Read More …
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