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Review: Hero of Kumaon by Duff Hart-Davis

A lucid and engaging survey of Jim Corbett’s life and experiences leavened with well-curated excerpts from his writing

Jim Corbett with the man-eating leopard of Rudraprayag. (HT Pic)
Updated on Jul 18, 2024 07:29 PM IST

Review: Through the Broken Glass by TN Seshan

The former Chief Election Commissioner’s autobiography, published posthumously, chronicles his career and details his attempts to establish that the Executive is not merely a rubber stamp of the Legislature

Chief Election Commissioner TN Seshan in a picture dated 01 March 1991. (HT Photo)
Updated on Dec 09, 2023 09:28 AM IST

Regional groups need to learn from JD(S)’s plight

It is indeed a paradox that a party that boasted of a former PM could not sustain itself as a pan-state powerhouse.

Senior JD(S) leader HD Kumaraswamy (left) and former PM HD Deve Gowda (PTI)
Published on Nov 13, 2023 09:15 AM IST

Review: Furrows in a Field; The Unexplored Life of HD Deve Gowda by Sugata Srinivasaraju

Sugata Srinivasaraju’s biography suggests that the unkind treatment of the former PM grew from the media’s own caste and class bias

Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda with South African President Dr Nelson Mandela at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on 28 March 1997. (HT Photo)
Published on Sep 16, 2022 05:29 PM IST
ByRahul Jayaram

Review: Venkatesa Suprabhatam by Venkatesh Parthasarathy

This book on Venkatesa Suprabhatam, a famous morning prayer, gives us a close reading of the text, the discourses that inform it, its influence, and its many meanings

MS Subbulakshmi’s rendition did much to popularise the Venkatesa Suprabhatam.(HT Photo)
Updated on Jan 08, 2021 09:53 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByRahul Jayaram

Review: Ganga: The Many Pasts of a River by Sudipta Sen

Sudipta Sen’s comprehensive work on the river is certain to become one of the go-to books on studying the Ganga

A sadhu dancing on a platform at Meer Ghat in Varanasi.(LightRocket via Getty Images)
Updated on May 03, 2019 05:22 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByRahul Jayaram

Review: Bastar Dispatches by Narendra

Researcher Narendra’s book brings to life one of the fascinating tribal communities of India and the world

On the road in Chhattisgarh.(HT Photo)
Updated on Oct 12, 2018 10:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByRahul Jayaram

Review: Adi Shankaracharya - Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker by Pavan K Varma

Pavan K Varma argues that Adi Shankara’s monist Advaita Vedanta philosophy is among the most significant philosophical currents of any time, anywhere

An Adi Sankara statue at the Vadakke Madham Brahmaswam in Thrissur, Kerala.(Getty Images)
Updated on Jul 13, 2018 08:06 PM IST
Hindustan Times | ByRahul Jayaram

Fork in the path

Swami Vivekananda is a mean guy. Nearly a year after his guru Ramakrishna dies he addresses the devotees of the monastic order named after the departed sage. Here, he mimics Ramakrishna, who hallucinated in his last years.

Updated on Aug 17, 2013 11:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | ByRahul Jayaram

Review: Sadhus: The Seekers of Salvation

Amazing pictures and text that reveals everything you wanted to know about Hindu sadhus but didn't dare ask.

Updated on Mar 16, 2013 12:37 PM IST
ByRahul Jayaram
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