I am impressed with what Sujit Saraf, from IIT and Berkeley, has achieved in this book. For Outlook | March 13, 2010 Sultana Daku lived...

India-Pakistan cricket fed a chauvinist imperative for decades. The liberal wind in the willows changed all that. For Outlook | August...

Empire's marionette, Duleep Singh could only align his life with an idle absurdity For Outlook | November 3, 2008 Maharaja Ranjit Singh...

Meticulously researched and produced, it gives the entire history of India's one-day matches. This will be manna for all schoolboys For...

Good for a long train or air journey. The tale is interesting and amusing, and describes a period which, thank God, can never be again....

The cartoons are a perceptive history of independent India from earliest times to now such as no one has done before, not even Nehru. For...

Classic reissue, of import to both those from the Punjab and those whose lives it shaped For Outlook | January 30, 2006 For 50 years,...

There are minor errors of dates and facts, which OUP shouldn't have allowed. But it's a small blemish on a fine farewell offering For...

In a way, the little book is a serious history of elections, and our ways with democracy. For Outlook | November 1, 2004 Talented...

Privy to political intrigues and personalities' quirks, this autobio is a say-some if not a say-all For Outlook | February 14, 2004 A...

A brave attempt to present 150 years of India's social, political and cultural history through photographic images For Outlook | February...

Every graduate course prescribes a book of essays. This book deserves to be there. For Outlook | December 29, 2003 I once chanced upon...

The whole world uses fingerprinting, do they know the footprints lead to Nadia? For Outlook | April 28, 2003 Shakespeare said of rulers,...

In a well-researched book, Cheema resurrects the six major padshahs of the period 1707-1857. For Outlook | April 7, 2003 We all grew up...

Lives of an inimitable people, documented in inimitable Khushwant style For Outlook | June 25, 2001 If I am not mistaken, Khushwant and...

RETURN TO PUNJAB, 1961–1975, by Prakash Tandon. Vikas, Delhi. PP 227. Rs. 50. For The Tribune, Chandigarh | June 17, 1981 Prakash Tandon...

SHAHEED BHAGAT SINGH by K.K. Khullar. Hem Publishers, New Delhi. Pp 154, Rs. 50. For The Tribune, Chandigarh | May 2, 1981 It is 50 years since Bhagat Singh made the supreme sacrifice for India's freedom. His memory has not faded with time. On the contrary, it has been reinforced and re-invigorated. He remains the beau ideal of all india and it would be difficult to find a corner of the country where he is unknown. Considering that he died at the young age of 24 and had a sh

HERMIT KINGDOM – LADAKH by Major H.P.S. Ahluwalia. Vikas, New Delhi, Pp. 186. Rs 295. For The Tribune, Chandigarh | November 22, 1980 In...

INDIAN MOUNTAINEER SPRING NUMBER, 1979. Indian Mountaineering Foundation. Pp 135. Rs 6. For The Tribune, Chandigarh | December 8, 1979...

PORTRAIT OF A POLITICAL MURDER by H. S. Bhatia. Deep & Deep Publications, New Delhi; Pp 178. Rs 35. For The Tribune, Chandigarh | June 9,...