Editor | Politics What is it about the Indian psyche that makes us so incapable of fulfilling our promise as a nation? Why are we so averse to risk, resigned to mediocrity and mired in a collective lack of confidence? India has so much potential but seems forever stuck on the brink of actualization, unable
Editor | Sports The year was 1983 and Team India was in its first-ever World Cup final. They were the minnows of the cricketing world – so much so that the bookmakers were offering 66:1 against India winning the title. Yet, despite the odds stacked against them, Kapil Dev’s inspirational captaincy took a bunch of
Editor | Politics A robust defense of democratic populism by one of America’s most renowned and controversial constitutional scholars-the award-winning author of We the People. Populism is a threat to the democratic world, fuel for demagogues and reactionary crowds-or so its critics would have us believe. But in his award-winning trilogy We the People, Bruce
Editor | Non-fiction A school teacher who killed multiple paramours with cyanide; a mother who trained her daughters to kill children; a thug from the 1800s who slaughtered more than 900 people, a manservant who killed girls and devoured their body parts. If you thought serial killers was a Western phenomenon, think again! These bone-chilling
Editor | Politics There is no better time than this after the resounding win of Narendra Modi-led BJP in the Lok Sabha elections to read how Hindu revivalism took hold of the country, subjecting Nehruvian ideals to the hammer blows of majoritarianism. Thirty years before they wrote the award-winning RSS: A View to the Inside,
By A Correspondent New Delhi: Simon & Schuster India is delighted to announce that Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharthi has won the Man Booker International Prize 2019. According to the The Man Booker International Prize judges on Celestial Bodies is ‘a richly imagined, engaging and poetic insight into a society in transition and into lives
Editor | Politics The story of Amit Shah’s political life, struggles, rise and triumph is little known. For a leader who is often referred to as the Chanakya of Indian politics, who has dominated India’s fast-paced and complex political stage since 2014, has altered its electoral map by leading the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to
Editor | Literary Fiction City of Girls (Bloomsbury) is a glittering coming-of-age epic stitched across the fabric of a lost New York from Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of the best-selling Eat Pray Love. It is the summer of 1940. Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York with her suitcase and sewing machine, exiled by her
Editor | Spirituality Teaching children through bedtime stories is a tradition that has become extinct. Trishla Jain, about this unique concept of teaching children through bedtime stories, said: “As my children were growing older and I was reading to them every night I realised there were so many things I wanted to teach them about
Editor | Politics As the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government completes its current term ahead of the General Elections 2019, it is time to evaluate its performance, specifically in terms of its management of the economy. This book is a critical assessment of five years of the brand of economics Prime Minister Narendra Modi has
