How a pre-teener found a treasure in the private book collection of India’s first Foreign Secretary, KPS Menon
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In Letter and Spirit!
Excerpt from Coomi Kapoor’s book The Tatas, Freddie Mercury & Other Bawas on the role of Parsi championing women’s rights in India.
A passionate reader’s many encounters with the inimitable Edgar Rice Burroughs and the raw and ready Tarzan.
Author and researcher Shashank Shekhar Sinha explains how a Sufi saint influenced the choice of Fatehpur Sikri, the new Mughal capital under Akbar’s rule.
When analysing the iconography of temples founded by the Birla family, the multitude of female representations becomes apparent.
Excerpts from ‘Indian Botanical Art: An Illustrated History’ by Martyn Rix
With the blockbuster movies from the Marvel and DC stables, they are now a serious business.
The author comes from a family of hard-core rationalists, but his overly active imagination prevented him from sleeping well after reading horror novels
The author was quite an ‘MCP’ as a seven-year-old, looking down upon comic books featuring girls as main characters, until Little Lulu came along.
There are a host of relatively unsung writers who are as witty as Jerome K Jerome or Mark Twain, and are worthy of reading and even re-reading, says the author, giving a glimpse of some of his favourites — Richard Armour, Tom Sharpe and Henry Cecil among them