Book Review

"Madam President" by Sandeep Sahu is a captivating biography that chronicles the extraordinary life of Droupadi Murmu, emphasising her remarkable rise from humble tribal roots to becoming…

"Madam President" by Sandeep Sahu is a captivating biography that chronicles the extraordinary life of Droupadi Murmu, emphasising her remarkable rise from humble tribal roots to becoming…

Hindi film songs are an abiding part of our lives. But how many of us actually know about the history of iconic Hindi songs? How many of us are aware of the various facets and genres of…

Jyotirindra Mohan Joardar’s Manua, rendered in English as Following My Heart, offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of a man witnessing such momentous events as the birth of India as a…

Life’s Little Tales by B N Patnaik is a collection of twenty-one essays with titles ranging from the great Mahābhārata War, Bhuta and the delicious Dosa to Linguistics and the sweet…

New Delhi: Actor Kangana Ranaut, who is busy with a recce for her upcoming directorial, Emergency, shared several pictures from her day out with her team as they went around a river and…

‘The Fanged Waters’ is the English translation of an Odia novel titled ‘Badhi Panira Danta’, authored by the acclaimed poet Prasanna Kumar Mishra. The translator, Snehaprava Das, who has…

Harijana is the first of the two fine novels that Gopinath Mohanty wrote in the ‘urban phase’ of his literary career, the second being Danapani (1955; English translation The Survivor, 1996;…