by Nil There is something almost unsettling about the fact that Charles Spencer’s most intimate book about Diana begins, in effect, with a question of possession: who knew her best? His mother,
After weeks of legal wrangling, a Division Bench of Justices S A Dharmadhikari and P V Balakrishnan overturned a temporary stay imposed by a single bench of Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas. The
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To be human has always meant trying to see what comes next. From ancient hunters reading animal tracks to farmers scanning the skies for rain, survival has depended on the ability to
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Introduction The question of nationalism in Sri Lanka remains one of the most consequential yet least understood issues in modern South Asian history. Satyagraha: The Freedom Movement of Tamils in Ceylon by
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Philippe Sands’s 38 Londres Street is ostensibly an investigation into two notorious men—Augusto Pinochet and Walther Rauff—but its deeper subject is something far more unsettling: the astonishing durability of impunity. Sands has
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by Durga Yi-Ling Liu’s The Wall Dancers begins not with theory or metaphor but with a body learning fear. “When I was a child in Beijing, I learned early how to stay
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Pavan K. Varma’s The Lady Who Carried the Monk Across the River presents itself as a parable “for ordinary people,” but that description is almost aggressively misleading. This is not a gentle
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One needs a huge audacity and imagination to write a political satire, as it can always be a double-edged sword. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and George Orwell’s famous Animal Farm are examples
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by Eric Tobias Straumann’s Out of Hitler’s Shadow is a book that sets out, with cool archival confidence and quiet provocation, to dismantle one of the most comfortable moral myths of postwar
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by Durga Chris Moore’s The Power of Guilt opens with a confession so extreme that it dares the reader to refuse him moral authority. “We had hit a group of fellow students
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by Eric Drew Miller’s Preparing to Survive in the Age of Collapse is a book that dares to say out loud what most liberal democracies prefer to whisper, outsource to thrillers, or
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by Durga Fatima Bhutto’s The Hour of the Wolf arrives disguised as a book about animals, even as it quietly dismantles that premise almost from the start. What it becomes instead is
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by Luxman Brooke N. Newman’s The Crown’s Silence is a book that does not merely revise British history; it indicts it. Written with the precision of an archival historian and the moral
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by Durga Xi Van Fleet and Yu Jie’s Made in America is a book that positions itself not merely as memoir or polemic but as warning siren — and it does so
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Stellan Skarsgård, one of European cinema’s most enduring presences, is experiencing an unexpected career crescendo at 74. After six decades of work across theater, arthouse cinema, and Hollywood blockbusters, the Swedish actor
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by Luxman It is an early twentieth-century work by Edward Gait, first published in 1926, shaped by the intellectual and imperial assumptions of its time. A History of Assam is not simply a regional
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