Yesterday the General Manager of the Delhi Telephones, Mr. P.C. Jauhri, offered a gift to the citizens of the capital (Statesman, 20th...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT IN INDIA Can the Hindu caste system, which has always held India's 576,000 villages together, survive the...

My wife said: We must go to the pictures. Haven’t been there for years”. I demurred, seeing no reason to break a sensible policy. She...

His passing away is a great loss to hill culture For The Tribune, Tribute | November 22, 2020 In 1959, the Chinese suddenly attacked...

For The Tribune | February 17, 2012 Punjab lost Chandigarh in 1966. In 1968 Lachman Singh Gill became Chief Minister for a short while....

I am impressed with what Sujit Saraf, from IIT and Berkeley, has achieved in this book. For Outlook | March 13, 2010 Sultana Daku lived...

India-Pakistan cricket fed a chauvinist imperative for decades. The liberal wind in the willows changed all that. For Outlook | August...

Empire's marionette, Duleep Singh could only align his life with an idle absurdity For Outlook | November 3, 2008 Maharaja Ranjit Singh...

Meticulously researched and produced, it gives the entire history of India's one-day matches. This will be manna for all schoolboys For...

Good for a long train or air journey. The tale is interesting and amusing, and describes a period which, thank God, can never be again....

The cartoons are a perceptive history of independent India from earliest times to now such as no one has done before, not even Nehru. For...

Classic reissue, of import to both those from the Punjab and those whose lives it shaped For Outlook | January 30, 2006 For 50 years,...

There are minor errors of dates and facts, which OUP shouldn't have allowed. But it's a small blemish on a fine farewell offering For...

For The Asian Age New Delhi | November 27, 2004 Yesterday was Guru Nanak's birthday. All over this country, and around the world,...

In a way, the little book is a serious history of elections, and our ways with democracy. For Outlook | November 1, 2004 Talented...

Privy to political intrigues and personalities' quirks, this autobio is a say-some if not a say-all For Outlook | February 14, 2004 A...

A brave attempt to present 150 years of India's social, political and cultural history through photographic images For Outlook | February...

Every graduate course prescribes a book of essays. This book deserves to be there. For Outlook | December 29, 2003 I once chanced upon...

The whole world uses fingerprinting, do they know the footprints lead to Nadia? For Outlook | April 28, 2003 Shakespeare said of rulers,...

In a well-researched book, Cheema resurrects the six major padshahs of the period 1707-1857. For Outlook | April 7, 2003 We all grew up...