Sunday 28 June '09
Rash Bihari Bose’s amazing life, in India and JapanSunday 7 June '09
A new biography places his inscrutability in the context of his timesSunday
8 June '08How Gandhi became a threat to everything Churchill believed inSunday
25 May '08Pico Iyer offers a biographical meditation on the Dalai Lama, in a style that is as dispassionate as the monk himselfSunday
11 May '08A work of history that breaks the stranglehold of the boring and looks at our intellectual icons in a refreshing light.Sunday
23 March '08A personal history of Laurie Baker, beyond his architectural adventuresThursday
20 March '08"Life is just one big banana. Science fiction allows us all to peel open the reality and discover the yellow truth inside.”Sunday
9 March '08A journey of two Indophiles from Nehruvian certainties to nuclear cloutSunday
10 February '08On the man who defied politicsFriday
8 February '08I think I leave a better world than what I found, and have done my duty to the world. Last incarnation? I don’t have to come back.Sunday
20 January '08James Tod and his monumental story of Rajasthan get a re-lookSunday
13 January '08What was the point of Tony Blair, asks the last instalment of Anthony Seldon’s biographySunday
30 December '07Srinivasa Sastri’s life and letters rescued by a closely argued biographySunday
9 December '07Sunday
25 November '07An open letter to that other great literary icon, Charlie BrownSunday
28 October '07With scraps of conversation and letters, Gopalkrishna Gandhi fills the gap in the Mahatma’s life. And, no, argumentative Bengalis were not quite insusceptible to his charmSunday
21 October '07The story of a legendary printing press and the intellectual types of the RajSaturday
13 October '07Doris Lessing is not quite a science fiction novelist, not quite a feminist icon, not quite an autobiographer. She is a writer who provokes and teaches. And, a Nobel LaureateSunday
30 September '0719th century Bengali satire, in a skilled translation, helps make sense of today’s CalcuttaSunday
19 August '07Peter Clarke shows how missteps by the British made the liquidation of the empire so bloodySunday
22 July '07How the Khyber Pass became globalisation’s passagewaySunday
1 July '07The strange, strange story of a book commissioned by the Pakistan governmentTuesday
22 May '07Tintin is a name that you will have heard of, even if you don’t know for sure who he is. Any child will gladly enlighten any poor soul who is ignorant of Tintin...Sunday
20 May '07An amazing petition from Vellore carries all the portents for the great storm fifty summers laterSunday
22 April '07The Taj provides a good view of the Mughal Empire. But the effort diminishes the building
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