December 2006
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 boy and girl could find [...]
November 2006
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 and England before joining the [...]
October 2006
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, princely state named Bastar. The [...]
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 a resident of Bangalore named [...]
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 a resident of Bangalore named [...]
September 2006
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 remembered as the year when [...]