Nawaid Anjum
‘Today’s leaders lack Nehru’s sensibility’
Jawaharlal Nehru is the most under-appreciated prose writer of the 20th century,” said author and former minister of state for external affairs Shashi Tharoor, speaking at the last day of the Hay Literature Festival in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday.
Dial F for food
Mita Kapur makes food saucy and sexy as she rustles up some culinary delights in The F-Word, published by HarperCollins. A romp down the boulevards filled with food, friends and family, the book brings to the fore Kapur’s flair for delectable recipes as she experiments with a variety of cuisines to suit all types of tastebuds.
Love in the time of elections
Anuja Chauhan colours politics with streaks of passion in her joyous, funny and rollicking ride of a second novel, Battle for Bittora (HarperCollins).
Spiritual strings attached
Come October 21 and the ramparts of the magnificent Mehrangarh Fort in Jodhpur, the Sun City, will bristle with musical notes of all hues in a colourful celebration of music.
‘Anyone can show leadership in his/her work’
Robin Sharma, the indefatigable leadership expert, draws on his favourite form — fable — to let us in on the formula that has catapulted him to fame on the road to self-realisation and leadership.
‘I’m interested in how an individual resists the pressures of the herd’
There is something immensely overpowering about Kalpana Swaminathan’s richly textured stories in Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit (Penguin Books, 2009) which has won the Vodafone Crossword Bo
‘I’m waiting to dance around trees’
Glamour can be quite addictive. As Swara Bhaskar, whose film Madholal Keep Walking releases today, is beginning to discover.
The song of birds
Among the many things Delhi-based Mehran Zaidi enjoys doing is birdwatching. He is a birder. And a keen one at that. The proof? His two books on birds. The author of Bird By Bird (Scholastic India, 2006), a young ornithology enthusiast like none other, recently came out with his second book Birds and Butterflies of Delhi: A Field Guide.
Lights, camera, celebration: Raising toast to Asian cinema
If you love cinema, it’s time to revel in its Asian flavours as the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema (Netpac) unravels “Imaging Asia,” a festival conceived as an“ exposition” of cinema, in Ne
‘From Delhi to Dibrugarh, we try to cover all four corners of the country’
Q. Congratulations for completing 75 years. While it calls for celebration, does it also coincide with a new plan to reinvigorate the house?
