Contrapunkt

This is good-bye. This blog began one year ago, on the 14th of August 2015, with an excerpt from my grandfather's book on partition...

Pilgrimage is an ancient practice, common to almost every religion. But within the Indian tradition, its appeal is easy to see. It recog...

My body’s experiences in India have helped me plot these elusive biographies. I first visited India in 2001; I have returned every year,...

Many readers assumed this book was banned as soon as it appeared in 1984. Even NDTV’s anchor said so when introducing me in The Big Fig...

Sanskrit literary texts abound in references to more worldly gardens: the great epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana, and courtly dram...

NAM KA CHU Subedar Dashrath Singh was dying, slipping in and out of consciousness as the blood seeped out of his torn and horribly mu...

Since 1992 an elegant cable-stayed bridge has spanned the River Hooghly, linking the suburb of Howrah and the city of Kolkata, the former...