Raavan is the darkest book I have ever written. I will never attempt something like this again, says Amish
Dressed in a checked grey shirt and black trousers, Amish Tripathi looks radiant as he steps into the library of his plush apartment in a swanky 60-storey residential tower, the newest address of affluence in suburban Mumbai. The reading room resembles a luxurious five-star lounge, with transparent curtains falling from a high oakwood ceiling and round sofas with colourful cushions. It offers an enviable view of the city’s skyline, which is gloriously coloured in shades of orange and grey on a wet Saturday evening. “Please order something. You have to have something,” he insists.
Soon after, he double checks my recorder to confirm that it is on, narrating an anecdote from a past interview in a Delhi hotel which went unrecorded and led to chaos. This is how our conversation begins—naturally, over a cup of green tea and his favourite cream biscuits.
It was the cream in the cracker that came to his rescue when the going got tough and “extremely complicated” with the writing of his recently launched, Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta, the third instalment in the five-book Ramchandra series.
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William Dalrymple goes further back
Indian readers have long known William Dalrymple as the chronicler nonpareil of India in the early years of the British raj. His latest book, The Golden Road, is a striking departure, since it takes him to a period from about the third century BC to the 12th-13th centuries CE.
The bleat from the street
What with all the apps delivering straight to one’s doorstep, the supermarkets, the food halls and even the occasional (super-expensive) pop-up thela (cart) offering the woke from field-to-fork option, the good old veggie-market/mandi has fallen off my regular beat.
Courage and conviction
Justice A.M. Ahmadi's biography by his granddaughter brings out behind-the-scenes tension in the Supreme Court as it dealt with the Babri Masjid demolition case
EPIC ENTERPRISE
Gowri Ramnarayan's translation of Ponniyin Selvan brings a fresh perspective to her grandfather's magnum opus
Upgrade your jeans
If you don’t live in the top four-five northern states of India, winter means little else than a pair of jeans. I live in Mumbai, where only mad people wear jeans throughout the year. High temperatures and extreme levels of humidity ensure we go to work in mulmul salwars, cotton pants, or, if you are lucky like me, wear shorts every day.
Garden by the sea
When Kozhikode beach became a fertile ground for ideas with Manorama Hortus
RECRUITERS SPEAK
Industry requirements and selection criteria of management graduates
MORAL COMPASS
The need to infuse ethics into India's MBA landscape
B-SCHOOLS SHOULD UNDERSTAND THAT INDIAN ECONOMY IS GOING TO WITNESS A TREMENDOUS GROWTH
INTERVIEW - Prof DEBASHIS CHATTERJEE, director, Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode
COURSE CORRECTION
India's best b-schools are navigating tumultuous times. Hurdles include lower salaries offered to their graduates and students misusing AI
