The last decade has been the one of agrarian crisis, as food grain production has steadily decreased. The crisis made marginal farmers shift from cereal to vegetable cultivation, a move that has ...
The extraordinary journey of K P Nair who built India’s national film archive, and Celluloid Man, the award-winning documentary that tells his story.
BY PARTHA CHATTERJEE
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It’s customary to think of government as serious business and ministers as people of substance. In the UPA, however, the major qualification seems to be endless servility and sensitivity to the ...
The Malaysian general election last month brought no change of government but voters took another step away from the ruling alliance, showing that they are serious about alternatives.
BY S N A ...
Every year, millions of people crisscross the subcontinent on pilgrimage but few ask why these places are sanctified. Diana Eck provides some answers in a fascinating study of India’s sacred ...
From the 21st century to the 19th and then the 16th is just a day’s journey for anyone interested in Portuguese and Mughal India.
BY LORA TOMAS
PHOTOGRAPHS BY RUDRA RAKSHIT
“Don’t ...
Is Bitcoin—an online, digitally mined currency— all that it proclaims to be? Will it set the world free of organised currency and economic crises? Or is anarachy its goal? The short and volatile ...
Life and times of Ganesh Pyne, one of the finest Indian artists of the modern era.
BY PARTHA CHATTERJEE
When the artist Ganesh Pyne (1937-2013) died in Kolkata on March 12, the newspapers and ...
The genetically modified crop that promised the moon to the farmers has failed to deliver. Over the years, yields have fallen, farmer suicides have risen, and there’s enough evidence to show this ...
How do you tell a story? Are there really only seven themes for a writer? It doesn’t get the reader very far to learn that this is an adventure story, or that a romance. We can’t really explain ...
