Breaking up is hard to do
"On the one hand we are proud of the fact that India has one of the lowest rates of divorce, globally. It's about 1.1 percent annually. However, UN reports indicate that the number of divorces has mul...
15 Feb 202548min
Breaking up is hard to do
On the one hand we are proud of the fact that India has one of the lowest rates of divorce, globally. It's about 1.1 percent annually. However, UN reports indicate that the number of divorces has mult...
13 Feb 202548min
The power and the glory
"Because of the wealth of inscriptions that they have left behind, it is really possible to understand the Cholas as political figures. Not only are they masters of media strategy, they are brilliantl...
7 Feb 202554min
Battling alternate reality
"Savarkar was a great rationalist. The surprising thing is how such a rationalist went completely off the rails in regard to other matters. His writing is full of villains and among the villains are t...
31 Jan 202552min
Of flying yoginis, Trojan elephants, and kings who ghost their girlfriends
"I do believe that literature is a very important source of knowledge complementary to history, epigraphy and archaeology. It is not easy to read drama at the best of times. It is even more difficult ...
23 Jan 202557min
Tibetans: From Lhasa to Dharamsala and the wider world
"Somehow, miraculously, Tibetans have managed to preserve their identity. They have actually transplanted the Tibet they left behind and have created a whole new little Tibet in India. This is a huge ...
16 Jan 202548min
In the land of the lotus eaters
Bhang has been mentioned in the Vedas; the use of cannabis as a medicinal boon has been mentioned in a lot of Indian scriptures for thousands of years, and it has been used in Ayurveda. During the Bri...
10 Jan 202553min
Cosy Delhi crime
"I'm a big fan of a very specific genre of crime novels, which is the Golden Age novels, the Agatha Christies and the GK Chestertons, the novels of the 1940s and '50s. I don't get to read those types ...
4 Jan 202550min
