Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews

Wetter, Verkehr und andere Peinlichkeiten

Gottfried Blumenstein

Seit zehn Jahren sendet im oberlausitzischen Rakecy/Königswartha das Radio am Schwarzwasser im örtlichen Kabelnetz volles Rohr 'am Trend vorbei', so beschrieb zumindest die Deutsche Pres...

Schatten über Borgloh

Dennis Rohling

Laduuuuuma! Wie der Fußball Afrika verzaubert

Bartholomäus Grill

Laduuuuuma heißt Tooooor! Südafrika ist mehr als Diamanten, Löwen, Tafelberg und Nelson Mandela. Wer wüsste das besser als der Afrika-Experte Bartholomäus Grill, der in Johannesburg eine Juge...

Ihr tausendfaches Weh und Ach - Was Männer von Frauen wollen

Hellmuth Karasek

Leicht und doch mit chaplineskem Ernst erzählt Karasek, wie Männer versuchen, zu lieben und zu flüchten, zu erobern und zu vergessen. Der "publizistische Turbokarpfen im Teich der grauen He...

Contes pour petits mignons... Et grands coquins (En français et en breton)

Yvon Le Quellec

Battle For Sanskrit : Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred? Oppressive or Liberating? Dead or Alive?

Rajiv Malhotra

There is a new awakening in India that is challenging the ongoing Westernization of the discourse about India. Battle for Sanskrit seeks to alert traditional scholars of Sanskrit and sanskriti –...

Super Women

Prachi Garg

This book brings forth the stories of twenty women entrepreneurs who have struck a perfect personal-professional harmony, and a chord with their immediate consumers. Their innovative ventures enco...

The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation

Ravish Kumar

'The National Project for Instilling Fear in the people has reached completion. Before the promised highways and jobs, everybody has been unfailingly given one thing—fear. For every individu...

Does He Know A Mother's Heart

Arun Shourie

'Arun's brilliance and insight come to the fore when he takes his specific personal situation and turns it into a discussion on the larger questions that humankind has been grappling with ...

Transcendence : My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji

APJ Abdul Kalam / Arun Tiwari

Pramukh Swamiji, one of the most inspiring spiritual leaders of modern times and the fifth spiritual successor of Bhagwan Swaminarayan, is the inheritor of a legacy of enlightened gurus that goes ...

Reimagining Pakistan - Transforming A Dysfunctional Nuclear State

Husain Haqqani

Salman Rushdie once described Pakistan as a 'poorly imagined country'. Indeed, Pakistan has meant different things to different people since its birth seventy years ago. Armed with nuclear...

Raja Ravi Varma

Ranjit Desai

A controversial novel based on the life of India's most celebrated painter, Raja Ravi Varma He was accused of making the gods look like humans and insulting them by portraying them in the nude...

A Hand Book For My Lover

Rosalyn D'Mello

I wish I had never met you. You've been nothing but an inconvenience. Guised as an instructive manual, A Handbook For My Lover chronicles six years in the life of an unconventional affair betw...

Self Deception : India's China Policies

Arun Shourie

A must-read for our times. A must for strengthening the country. On what assumptions was Pandit Nehru confident that China would not invade India in 1962? Why and on what basis did he scotch all w...

Lalgarh and the Legend of Kishnaji : Tales from India's Maoist Movement

Shigdhendu Bhattacharya

'India is an unbroken chain of broken promises.' In 2009, Lalgarh in West Bengal exploded on to the national consciousness. A tribal upsurge against police atrocities escalated into fierce...

Don't Disturb the Dead - The Story of the Ramsay Brothers

Shamya Dasgupta

Everyone knows about the Ramsays – even those who have never watched a Ramsay film. But who were they really? Where did they come from? Why did they make the films they did? And how? How, really...

Headley and I

S. Hussain Zaidi / Mahesh Bhatt / Rahul Bhatt

'Hussain Zaidi, Mumbai's prodigious chronicler of the underbelly of the maximum city, pulls the covers off a friendship that only ended when Mumbai burned' – Adrian Levy For most of ...

Feluda@50

Boria Majumdar

In 1965, Satyajit Ray, drawing from the detective tradition made popular by characters such as Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, created a character who would go on to influence Bengalis of an e...

Saffron and Pearls - A Memoir of Family, Friendship & Heirloom Hyderabadi Recipes

Doreen Hassan

For the Hassan family, Hyderabad is not just where their roots lie; it is also the city that informs the way they lead their lives. Known and loved for their legendary hospitality for over four de...

Main Narendra Modi Bol Raha Hoon

Mahesh Sharma

कुशल शासक एवं संगठक, ओजस्वीवक्ता, कवि-लेखक-विचारक और युगदृष्टा, भारत गणराज�...