Ashutosh Kumar Thakur

Tracing the investigations launched in the aftermath of the Pulwama disaster

May 29, 2023

On the 14th of February 2019 in Pulwama, a notified area council approximately 30 kilometres South of Srinagar, a radical and fundamentalist youth by the name of Adil Ahmed Dar rammed a blue coloured Maruti Eco car laden with close to 200 kilograms of explosives into a bus that was...

Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya

February 6, 2023

The biography of Agyeya, “Writer, Rebel, Soldier, Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya,” which came last year July, chronicles his transformation from a revolutionary youth to a very controversial patron-saint of Hindi writing. Akshaya Mukul is the author of the book. Author Akshaya Mukul successfully presented Agyeya’s public, private, and...

MOHSINA KIDWAI’S MEMOIRS ARE REFRESHINGLY DIFFERENT

January 20, 2023

In “My Life in Indian Politics”, veteran Congress leader, former Union minister Mohsina Kidwai assesses not just her own contribution to public life, but also provides an honest appraisal of the turn in fortunes of the political party she has remained a loyal member of, the Indian National Congress. Written...

‘AI for You: The New Game ChangeR’ provides introductory knowledge on AI

January 9, 2023

Despite decades of philosophical and science-fiction discussion, artificial intelligence (AI) is now rapidly approaching reality. AI, as we all know, rose to prominence over the past ten years. With businesses like Google pouring billions of dollars into creating ever more AI applications, it was all over the headlines every day....

Wake Up Ali…Wake Up Now

December 26, 2022

Lot many South Asian writers have written about the South Asian diasporic migration stories and have covered varied theme, including, but not limited to alienation, racial clashes, hybridity, third space, ambivalence, displacement etc. ‘Wake Up Ali…Wake Up Now: A South Asian Disporic Story by a Nepali author Sumit Sharma Sameer...

‘3 Rays’ is one more testimony to Satyajit Ray’s genius

September 9, 2022

Satyajit Ray was a Bengali motion-picture director, writer, and illustrator who brought the Indian cinema to world recognition with Pather Panchali (1955; The Song of the Road) and its two sequels, known as the Apu Trilogy. As a director, Ray was known for his humanism, his versatility, and his detailed...

Defying parental wishes, cultural expectations

August 9, 2022

Jahnavi Barua belongs to that growing pantheon of Indian writers in the English language whose style is a new movement in literature that has quietly developed almost unseen over the past few decades. The story is mainly set in Assam and Bangalore and touches upon various themes like home, family,...

‘What the Heck…’ is about living one’s life intentionally

July 19, 2022

‘What the Heck Do I Do with My Life: How to Flourish in Our Turbulent Times’ is an epiphanic ode to the hustlers, achievers, and the people who seek to define themselves and their professional persona in this changing yet exciting times. Business leader, author, entrepreneur, and currently UNICEF’s Special Representative...

‘REBIRTH’ IS AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT OF THE PASSIONATE BOND BETWEEN A MOTHER AND HER UNBORN CHILD

July 8, 2022

Jahnavi Barua belongs to that growing pantheon of Indian writers in the English language whose style is a new movement in literature that has quietly developed almost unseen over the past few decades. You certainly took your time to show up. Year after year, we waited, your father and I,...

‘Death Script’: A complete view of the Naxal insurgency in India

June 24, 2022

The book ‘Death Script’ by Ashutosh Bhardwaj is a creative biography of Dandakaranya that combines the rigor of journalism, the intimacy of a diary, the musings of a travelogue, and the craft of a novel. Through the prism of Maoist insurgency, the book also looks at larger questions of violence...

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