A SHORT NOTE ON A SHORT ESSAY ON THE SHORT STORY, The Telegraph
The first argument I had with my wife was about literature. We had known each other only a few weeks, but fortunately—in those pre-cable TV, pre-Internet, days—we knew already that [...]
KASHMIR THEN AS NOW, The Hindu
Among the minor figures of modern Indian history, one who has long intrigued me is the civil servant and journalist A. D. Gorwala. Born in 1900, Gorwala studied in Bombay [...]
BASTAR THEN AND NOW, The Hindu
At about the time of the Battle of Britain, an Englishman of combatant age made a new home with his new wife in a then very remote, and very forested, [...]
RECORDING GANDHI, The Hindu
Some months ago, I wrote in these columns about Nirmal Kumar Bose, the anthropologist who worked with Mahatma Gandhi and also wrote about him. That piece attracted the attention of [...]
RECORDING GANDHI, The Hindu
Some months ago, I wrote in these columns about Nirmal Kumar Bose, the anthropologist who worked with Mahatma Gandhi and also wrote about him. That piece attracted the attention of [...]
THE ARTS OF HUMANKIND, The Telegraph
‘For a sixteen-year-old youth who had yet to begin to shave’, writes Kumar Mukherji in his memoir of life as a music lover, ‘the winter of 1942 would best be [...]