Two Almora Lives

Sunday 1 April '07

How Boshi and Gertrude Sen’s home, Kundun House, became such a hub.

Sagan’s Cosmos

Sunday 4 March '07

Could there be an entity not subject to the rules of science and physics?

Facts of the Guru

Sunday 11 February '07

Arvind Sharma chronicles a life immortalised by Somerset Maugham and Paul Brunton

It Began in Bengal

Sunday 7 January '07

Subrata Dasgupta on how the road to R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi runs through the east

Ways of Gandhiji

Sunday 10 December '06

A new biography paints the sunlight and the shadows of his life

In His Own Words

Sunday 19 November '06

Subhas Chandra Bose’s last writings show why he remains such a haunting figure

Revision Games

Sunday 29 October '06

The independence and partition of India has generated more interest among historians of South Asia than any other single event.

Bapu & Friends

Sunday 24 September '06

How those radical ideas still define us

Failed Viceroy

Sunday 13 August '06

Wavell foresaw 1947. What does that say about Mountbatten?

Mahatma’s Gita

Sunday 4 June '06

Gandhi scholarship is picking up pace to detail his inclusive, ethical universalism