Life and Times of Edith Durham
Edith Durham was an English woman who explored the Balkan region in the beginning of twentieth century just prior to the first world war. Her several writings about the region…
Livneet Shergill
Dervla Murphy:The Evergreen Traveller
The life of Dervla Murphy both inspires us and leaves us awestruck. She was a multitude of people in one. She was a travel writer, an explorer, an environmentalist and…
Off-Grid Life of Margaret Gallagher
“Everyone’s entitled to live their life as they want to”, there can be no truer words. These are the words of Margaret Gallagher, a woman who has lived all…
Nine months of Farmers Protest
When the ongoing farmers' protest in India began last year in the states of Punjab and Haryana, nobody could predict that it would go on for so long and its…
EU and Russia’s Fraught Relationship – A Timeline
Russia and Europe share strong historical and cultural ties from time immemorial. But these ties did not translate into amicable trade relations between the two. The Russian Federation and the…
The Covid Milestone
We are more than a year and half into the pandemic and this momentous time period has laid bare our vulnerabilities as a global society. The way coronavirus disease has…
About Books, Bookshops and Booksellers
If you love to read books, then in your journey as a reader you desire, at some point or other, to be part of the bookshop experience, to either own…
Remembering Hannah Hauxwell
“Whatever I am, wherever I am, this is me, this is my life and if there’s a funny old person in years to come, who’s a ghost walking up and…
Impressions from the Farmers’ Protest- Will It Last?
“Everywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet….” Mick Jagger and Keith Richards sang in 1968. I was reminded of this song, the moment I reached Singhu border of…
Development in the Indian Context
India is the world's largest democracy and there is no denying the fact that India occupies an important place in the world economy. India is one of the world’s fastest…
The Protest Year – 2020
The year 2020 was iconic in many respects. With the start of a new decade the world was greeted by coronavirus, which in no time became a global pandemic. Along…
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