In sheer statistical terms, the 1918 flu pandemic and the COVID-19 pandemic are not comparable.
The mosque was small and was never used as a place of worship. When Maharaja Ranjit Singh took control of the entire Punjab, the Sikhs took over the mosque, placed the Guru Granth Sahib inside it and converted it into a gurudwara.
Shree winning the International Booker Prize may be a cause for celebration in India and among the world of Hindi publishers. However, as Sanjaya Kumar Singh, a well-known Hindi journalist, writer and editor, said on Facebook, “Indian publishers have contributed nothing to Geetanjali Shree winning the Booker. She won despite them and not because of them.”
Amid Hindu-Muslim antagonism that existed even then, Nanak wanted to show that there is a direct path to God, one that doesn’t travel through temples and shrines.
Mohammed Hamid Ansari, after a long and distinguished career during which he served as India's envoy to five countries and as the Permanent Representative at the UN, served two terms as Vice President, an honour previously accorded only to Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Indias revival in a post-pandemic world is not just about getting the economic policy right, but also about getting governance and national priorities right, political commentator and policy analyst Sanjaya Baru writes in "Beyond Coronaviruss Shadow - Mapping Indias Economic Resurgence"
Did the declassification of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose's files on December 3, 2019, really unravel the mystery behind his alleged disappearance and death in an air crash in Taipei? As the nation celebrates the 125th anniversary of his birth comes "The Vanishing of Subhash Bose -- The Mystery Unlocked" by Delhi-based lawyer and author Rajesh Talwar, a well-researched book that carefully analyses all three inquiries into Bose's alleged disappearance, which has never been attempted before in this manner
The first edition of Lt. Gen. Y M Bammi (retd) Kargil 1999: The impregnable conquered, with its 800-plus pages, annexures, maps and additional documents are the most widely compiled book on the intense actions/battles during Pakistan’s ambitious misadventure
"Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last," the US Vice President-elect's mother Shyamala Harris told her once, says this revelatory and inspiring biography of the female icon of the moment, to be released on the day she takes office on January 20
National Security and Conventional Arms Race - Spectre of A Nuclear War is an unusual book that deals with India’s national security in an omnibus manner and it is also dizzying by way of the format chosen by the author, Dr. N.C. Asthana, IPS (retd)
Just how did the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of this country's most effective power players? Through the human touch, by turning defeat into victory and most of all, by doing things her way, a timely biography of Kamala Harris, the US Vice President-elect says
Many Indians do not know much about the Northeast with its earlier seven and now eight states after the inclusion of Sikkim
Its an anthology that took 10 years to compile, but that's not surprising given that it takes 200 years of Indians writing prose and poetry in English, and what emerges is a priceless collection of something that has never been attempted before
Priyanka Chopra Jonas very aptly sums up her life thus: "I am a product of traditional India and its ancient wisdom, and modern India and its urban bustle
Delving deep into Islamic theology and politics and how they shaped contemporary India, a compelling new book explains the two landmark legislative interventions of the Central government in the first six months after returning to power in 2019 -- nullification of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and enactment of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA)
Ved Mehta, who shined a bright literary light of evocativeness and imagery overcoming his blindness, has died here at the age of 86
Call it a love for his mother tongue Hindi or his passion to invent something new that a school drop out, a carpenter by profession in India, turned into a Wikipedia editor and wrote 1,800 articles for its pages using his humble old vanilla plain mobile's keypad
Soumitra Chatterjee, the doyen of Bengali cinema who passed away on November 15, 2020 aged 85, leaving behind an oeuvre of over 250 films – a staggering 14 of them directed by Satyajit Ray - five books, four poetry collections, three dramas and an array of paintings, had once remarked that he would have become a carpenter had he not become an actor
Originally written by Sahana Vijayakumar in Kannada in 2018, "Kasheer: A Diabolical Betrayal of Kashmiri Hindus" in its English translation brings forth to a larger audience the story of Kashmiri Hindus and the unfortunate mass exodus of the community from their motherland in 1990, against the backdrop of Kashmir's Islamisation
