An amateur’s attempt at being Michiko Kakutani!
A simulacrum of and for the times in which it was written, I first came across Anatole Broyard’s “Kafka was the Rage” when…
Carlo Rovelli is the William Wordsworth of Physics. He has this uniquely gifted quality of reducing the most complex and convoluted ideas down…
On the 14th of February 2019 in Pulwama, a notified area council approximately 30 kilometers south of Srinagar, a radical and fundamentalist youth…
In the interregnum between the publication of “Pax Sinica” by Samir Saran and Akhil Deo and the crushing second wave of the COVID-19…
Nehru, Tibet and China – A.S.Bhasin Francis Bacon once memorably said, “It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves,…
Thomas Schäfer had the unenviable task of serving as the German Ambassador to North Korea for eight years. His tenure was in two…
The doyen of the Indian Constitution Dr. B.R.Ambedkar is venerated for his immortal quote on the efficacy of any Constitution. Ambedkar in an…
While Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook might have moved away from the credo of ‘moving fast and breaking things’, characters in Eric Van Lustbader’…
Ichiro Sato provides a very interesting, insightful, and concise primer on the concepts of “Ikigai” and “Kaizen” and also articulates how everyone of…
Zambian economist and bestselling author Dambisa Moyo, in her latest book, “How Boards Work”, lays out a concise ‘manifesto’ for an expedient and…