He set off for Delhi from his home in Hissar with Rs. 17 in his pocket at the age of 17. The flourishing...
ByShubhabrata BhattacharyaMarch 6, 2016CAUGHT by the Police, a biography of Anandswarup Gupta, a 1939-batch Indian police officer who served as the Founder-Director of the Bureau of...
ByNarendra KaushikFebruary 6, 2016THESE three opening sentences of the book sum up the entire life of the man. Born to a woman of tremendous force and...
ByBN UniyalJanuary 7, 2016AT the Service of a Billion Plus is a recently published, very insightful and interesting book on Group ‘A’ Civil Services (CS), particularly...
ByGautam SenJanuary 7, 2016Shireen-tar az hikayate-e-maa neest qissa-e Tareekh-e-roozgar sarapa navishta em. No story is as sweet as mine, I have written all history from beginning...
ByBN UniyalNovember 6, 2015AT the time when I was finishing my reading of the book under review, for the second time in a fortnight, a top...
ByAbhilash KhandekarSeptember 8, 2015REMEMBER that the vicissitudes of covering a story do not make a story!” Nikhil Chakravartty of Mainstream fame used to tell us during...
ByBN UniyalAugust 11, 2015THE author was a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) of the Tamil Nadu cadre from 1968 to 2005. The book deals...
ByK. SUBRAMANIANFebruary 6, 2015THE genesis of the United Front (multi-party alliance) politics in India and the strategy to successfully manage the dialectic associated with such eventuality...
ByShubhabrata BhattacharyaJanuary 7, 2015IT is believed that, during his wanderings in the Himalaya after renouncing the world, Sant Tulsidas met Kak Bhushundi, the mythical sacred crow...
ByRam VarmaSeptember 6, 2014