Pratik Kanjilal
The writer is Associate Editor.
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Shelf life: Princess diary
The latest is her biography of Babur’s daughter Gulbadan, which drops the sentimental “rose” from the original title: Portrait of a Rose Princess at the Mughal Court.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Shelf life: The ghost of yesterday
Particularly interesting are the general and railway budgets of the 70s, which suggest that in part, the Emergency was a reaction to an economic downturn.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Breaking down news: Goodbye to all that
US president Obama’s fine and final oratorial flourish underlines the possible lack of it from his temperamental successor.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Men on a Mission
In Mission Unpluckable, Blabey’s monsters attempt to establish their bona fides by liberating the inmates of a modern, mechanised chicken farm, rattling the cages of a inhumanly consumerist society.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020You Are Here
Geography lessons would have been fun had they been designed in the manner of this lucid and accessible history of the landmass of South Asia
Thu, Nov 05, 2020In the beginning, is the Word
Here is the alphabet for the lexicon of change in India in 2016-17, words that carry within them entire narratives — from the troubled to the trivial.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Tomorrow is another day
Von Neumann was more conservative, settling for 30 years from the present. But a cut-price, no frills singularity is already creeping up on us, without benefit of mathematics.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Breaking Down News: ‘Tis the Season
To appear just before the Budget, the January 24 issue of Forbes will carry an article by chairman and editor-in-chief Steve Forbes headlined ‘What India has Done to its Money is Sickening and Immoral’.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Breaking down news: Truth in the age of internet
This was a surgical strike, in the Indian meaning of the term — an event that was not unprecedented, but was attended by unprecedented publicity this time.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Speak easy: A case of identity
If Arthur Conan Doyle’s medical career had not floundered, the world would have never known of Sherlock Holmes.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Breaking Down News: Show Me the Money
After the hassles of cash in India, there is news of the tumbling casino stocks in the US and Australia; in other news, the big boys of social media agree to share database of hashes of terrorist content.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020Breaking Down News: Winter Has Come
Indian news fogs up further as cinema halls become a domain for display of nationalism, while an amendment enabling the FBI to hack devices poses a serious threat to privacy.
Thu, Nov 05, 2020
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Skin Allergies In Children – What parents need to know?
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MPs, MLAs can practice law during their elected tenure: SC
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Kerala priest forced to revoke ban on nun who joined protest
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Kashmir: Three policemen kidnapped, killed by militants in Shopian
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H Raja does it again: Why the BJP leader finds himself in another soup
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Four days before Vijay Mallya flew out, lawyer told SBI to move court, stop him
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Srinagar businessman gets bail in Kashmir terror funding case
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Surgical strikes 2016: How leopard urine helped Indian soldiers
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Mayawati ruffles Congress feathers by blaming UPA for fuel price