Dard Ka Safar
NIGAR AKHTERMADHUBALA, the renowned Hindi film actress of 1950s and ‘60s, formed a triumvirate of fame along with fellow artists Nargis and Meena Kumari. Her actual name was Mumtaz Jahan…
Widows and Half Widows
The ‘Widows and Half Widows’ by Afsana Rashid is a saga of extra-judicial arrests and killings in Kashmir. It is story of women who even after years of the disappearance
The Potter’s Poison
Dr S K E HaiderCleft away by the unhealthy Yamuna, Gunjaan, on the other side of the river bank, is a small neglected locality dotted with battered low houses, swathed…
Legislature and Judiciary
NEW DELHI: (AMN) Vice-President of India and Chairman, Rajya Sabha M. Hamid Ansari on Wednesday emphasized on maintaining the delicate balance between the organs of the government.
Memories of Emergency
"THE Emergency, which lasted for 19 months between June 1975 and March 1977, has been the subject of many books... The point being that the Emergency marked an important watershed…
Islam in Europe
OPINION is divided on the future of Europe. Books with titles like Why Europe Will Run the Twenty-first Century claim that Europe will (or already does) supersede the United States…
War through a camera lens
TATAJANA SOLI'S haunting debut novel begins where it ought to end. In this quietly mesmerizing book about journalists covering the war in Vietnam, the first glimpses of the place are…
A storytelling duel
A STORYTELLER returns to his beloved Delhi two and a half centuries ago, only to find it devastated by the violence of Afghan ruler Ahmad Shah Abdali. The plunder, the…
Serious Men
Written by Manu Joseph. Ayyan Mani appears to be just another man in Mumbai, stranded in the rot of a good marriage, an unremarkable life and a dead-end job as…