Book Mark | Sunday Special - Times of India

'I think of myself as Indian in a sense that includes Pakistan'

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:32:06 GMT

He's one of the subcontinent's most exciting literary talents. His new book 'Noon' explores violence in South Asia. Son of Pakistani politician Salman Taseer, assassinated after defying Islamist groups, Aatish Taseer speaks with Srijana Mitra Das about nations, truth, lies and ties that bind - or break - people.

'I think of myself as Indian in a sense that includes Pakistan'

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:32:06 GMT

Sunday times exclusive extract

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:01:17 GMT

Sahil Tabassum once said to me, ‘I like a book to have a beginning, a middle and an end.’ I thought to myself...mine cannot be that kind of book. The gaps in my life were too many, the threads too few.

Sunday times exclusive extract

Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:01:17 GMT

Having job blues? Engage your boss

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:26:47 GMT

Low-performers usually look for a boss who will treat every employee equally. A boss who doesn’t know who is doing what, where, why, when or how, a boss who doesn’t keep track and ignores performance problems.

Having job blues? Engage your boss

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:26:47 GMT

Quickies catch on

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:22:19 GMT

When an IIT graduate wrote a bestseller that also became an award-winning movie, he inspired a legion of young authors. The result?

Quickies catch on

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:22:19 GMT

When an IIT graduate wrote a bestseller that also became an award-winning movie, he inspired a legion of young authors. The result?

Experiments with untruth

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 21:11:24 GMT

That clinical trials in India are fraught with danger and have no compensation mechanism is well known. What comes as a greater surprise is how the so-called ethics committees constituted to clear such experiments are raking in big money doing precious little. Rema Nagarajan investigates the sordid story for Sunday Times

Opium of the Empire

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:23:04 GMT

Amitav Ghosh digs out a hidden part of the Raj history in a compelling story

Opium of the Empire

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:23:04 GMT

Amitav Ghosh digs out a hidden part of the Raj history in a compelling story

Tudor queen who was a kingmaker

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:21:46 GMT

Overshadowing a large chunk of the 15th century, The War of the Roses raged in England for a shade over 30 years as the descendants of Edward III divided themselves into Yorkists (white rose) who traced their line back to Edward's youngest son, Edmund Duke of York, and Lancastrians (red rose) who traced their line back to Edward's second son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.

Tudor queen who was a kingmaker

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 23:21:46 GMT

'They mocked me because I didn’t know who Lionel Richie was'

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:11:29 GMT

Biting — yet sensitive. He’s a study in contrasts. Just like his books. Writer Aravind Adiga won the Man Booker Prize in 2008 with his novel “White Tiger”. In the first interview given globally over his new book “Last Man in Tower”, Adiga now tells Srijana Mitra Das about being a small-town boy, falling in love with Mumbai, capturing the people and philosophies rich India overlooks, writing being his fate, generating controversy — and why he might just step away now.

'They mocked me because I didn’t know who Lionel Richie was'

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:11:29 GMT

Trains, Towers & Temptations...

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:10:44 GMT

Masterji followed the men through glass doors on to a rectangular balustrade terrace, where the sea breeze blew into his hair.

Trains, Towers & Temptations...

Sat, 25 Jun 2011 20:10:44 GMT

Masterji followed the men through glass doors on to a rectangular balustrade terrace, where the sea breeze blew into his hair.

The mystery behind art of the matter

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:30:05 GMT

Why is it that in the historical art galleries of painting - or of sculpture, for that matter - only a very few women are represented?

The mystery behind art of the matter

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:30:05 GMT

Why is it that in the historical art galleries of painting - or of sculpture, for that matter - only a very few women are represented?

If he had reached Delhi...

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:27:55 GMT

Grandnephew Sugata Bose tracks Netaji’s life in a brilliant biography

If he had reached Delhi...

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 01:27:55 GMT

Grandnephew Sugata Bose tracks Netaji’s life in a brilliant biography

Wilde imagination: Oscar as Holmes

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:25:39 GMT

Imagine Oscar Wilde, the famed playwright and poet, in the mold of a Sherlock Holmes or a Hercules Poirot. That’s precisely what author Gyles Brandreth does - make a convincing detective out of Wilde even as he remains faithful in his portrayal of him as an aesthete and a bohemian with his flamboyant style and acerbic wit.

Wilde imagination: Oscar as Holmes

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:25:39 GMT

Literary suns make up while Hay shines

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:21:44 GMT

V S Naipaul makes up with Paul Theroux even as he falls out with women at the literary festival.

Literary suns make up while Hay shines

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:21:44 GMT

V S Naipaul makes up with Paul Theroux even as he falls out with women at the literary festival.