As she prepares for an Olympic Gold, Mary Kom spares some time from her busy schedule for a conversation with Shubham Nag. Although you have qualified for the Olympics, you lost in the quarterfinals of the World Championships. Does
Mathew J. Webb talks about his new book, the Kashmir conflict, its right to secede and much more… in a conversation with Majid Maqbool. The book happens to be the only full-length analysis of these theories with regard to a
Going beyond the romanticism of Communist ideologues and State ruthlessness, Ramachandra Guha talks of nuclear trade, Maoists and more… You have quoted E J Hobsbawm and called Maoists as ‘social bandits’. Here just as we have Chidambaram’s zero tolerance
Joseph Lelyveld is a Pulitzer winning journalist, having reported extensively on South Africa and India. Yet just a few pages of a book were all that it took to assess him. Is it about intolerance or sexual hypocrisy? Or are there
Deepti Naval talks of laments, hope, books, films, piracy and more… Between the two golden stars of the parallel film movement, it wasn’t easy for her to carve a niche. Yet with films like ‘Chasme Buddoor’, ‘Main Zinda Hoon’, ‘Kamla’
At a time when the dominant narrative is of normalcy, Sanjay Kak breaks myths. Do you see an increasing tendency in the media to paint a picture of normalcy in Kashmir? If yes why? I think those who fashion
He is not only one of the most erudite politicians in contemporary India but also one its wittiest, even though that often lands him in troubled waters. An interview with Shashi Tharoor. I have to start with the question,
In the times of mass graves, vanishing forests, multi-million dollar MOUs and new defi nitions of poverty line, scholar Ashis Nandy brings in some perspective. You are constantly questioning the nature of patriotism, even calling it an ‘intimate enemy’. Do
Faiz’s daughter, Salima Hashmi speaks to Pritha Kejriwal about her father and his poetry, and how Pakistan is rediscovering the poet, crisis by crisis… The last time I heard you speaking on Faiz, you had said, “Shero Shayiri se
Tabish Khair talks of books, colonialism, majoritarian constructs, the idea of India and more in a conversation with Sayan Bhattacharya. The title of your latest novel ‘How to fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position’ is extremely cheeky and