For Outlook | April 30, 2007 I first went to Kathmandu when I was CEC many years ago. It was a world congress on mountaineering and...

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....

Lutyens' Delhi is under siege and no one cares. It's an unholy coup d'etat. For Outlook | July 3, 2006 I have lived for many years in...

Tigers roamed here once. Now, it's a jungle of caterwauling tourists. For Outlook | February 27, 2006 Ranthambhor and its tigers were...

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...

For Outlook | May 12, 2003 Recently, I had the chance of an extensive tour of Saurashtra. Raj Kumar College in Rajkot, set up in 1870 as...

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...

That's Tendulkar, with brilliance on the field and modesty on his sleeve For Outlook | May 25, 2002 It is odd for a former CEC to write...

Free India's mantris and santris have lived amid abundant greenery. But they haven't ever planted a single tree. For Outlook | February...

Madhavrao Scindia, like his father, held a liberal, tolerant, catholic view of cultures and people. For Outlook | October 15, 2001...