Uddalak Mukherjee
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Luminous realms
The prime minister is blessed with a peculiar wisdom. It is only natural, then, that innumerable countrymen would, on occasion, exhibit signs of peculiar behaviour. After Narendra Modi got India to raise a frightful din with thaalis and, days later, burn candles, there were unsubstantiated reports of diligent citizens gathering on balconies and terraces — the designated spaces for Mr Modi’s… → Read More
Three trysts, one land: Kipling, Kingsley, Conan Doyle and the Anglo-Boer War
Can biographies, even one as magisterial as this one, answer every query on the lives under scrutiny? → Read More
Home alone: The cultural anxiety about solitariness
Coronasur, Conrad and civilisation's oldest and deepest paranoia: the fear of isolation → Read More
The Rath of the gods
In celebration of the core idea of the chariot festival → Read More
In cinemas now: Survival of the single-screen theatre
The unequal, but doughty, struggle that single-screen theatres are having to wage → Read More
Our collective apathy towards the aural dimension of heritage
Why the mayor of a French village wants to protect the sounds that constitute the heart of the landscape → Read More
Southern skies
The dismantling of stereotypes enlivens Tamil Characters for those located in other parts of India → Read More
One Rahul, many Gandhis: What the Congress chief needs to focus on
Some say other candidates named Gandhi have been fielded in Wayanad by rivals to confuse voters. But does it matter? → Read More
Reader Express: Writing on the railways
Of all the Industrial Revolution inventions, the train has struck deep roots in the literary imagination → Read More
A tale of two detectives
The perfect investigator, much like the perfect crime, is an illusion → Read More
The real birthday of Goopi Gayen and Bagha Bayen
Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury opened up the magical world of vernacular, indigenous fairy tales for children → Read More
Mike Brearley or Shane Warne: Who has written the better book?
A comparative reading of On Cricket and No Spin: My autobiography → Read More
Fox Mulder move over, these bhoot sleuths have their own X Files
The Detectives of Supernatural are passionate about scientific examination of the paranormal → Read More
Death by languor: An entomological armageddon threatens both economy and ecology
The near-destruction of insects has remained largely unrepresented in the public discourse → Read More
In search of Brown Sahib's bungalow in Bangalore
Past and present can be elusive alike in Bangalore → Read More
The Great Smog is the right read for a breathless nation
Siddharth Singh shows how air pollution has become a vicious cycle → Read More
VVS Laxman's autobiography reproduces moments from an illustrious career
Cricketing biographies are treasured for anecdotes. Laxman does not disappoint the reader on this count → Read More
The Great Civilising Project
The most lethal weapon unleashed on the Andamans, its original inhabitants and its ecosystem, is tourism → Read More
The boats that sank in time and tide
The paukiya, Jhumjhumir chhot, merhli, khorokisti and bauliya are nearly extinct → Read More
Ahmedabad's relationship with Gandhi: It's complicated
In the city that witnessed his transformation into the Mahatma, Gandhi is a man in – and often out of – time → Read More