All empires in human history have been formed and sustained by conquest, violence and bloodshed. They can survive only by expansion. After some time, the same expansion becomes a liability for the empire and a catalyst for its decline and...
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Seated on a park bench in the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende, Bonita, a young language student from India, savours the scene: children playing around the bandstand, a wandering balloon seller, and the pigeons strutting and bowing to...
Here is a book which, as the author has rightly said, “pieces together fragments of history to bring the present into focus”. The intensity of intellectual labour that has made a work of this kind possible is simply amazing. In...
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Little known in the history of Indian Independence and the subsequent integration of territories into the Union is the chapter on the liberation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli that lies on the western coast. What makes the episode remarkable is...
‘Hum Dono’ brings out the creative relationship between brothers Dev Anand and Vijay Anand
The protagonists in ‘Aunties of Vasant Kunj’ are united in their struggle to define their identities
Geetanjali Shree’s 'Our City, That Year', translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, is her “most political book”
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