Ruskin Bond’s first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over 500 short stories, novellas, poems and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999. His short stories “The Night Train at Deoli”, “Time Stops at Shamli”, and “Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra” have [...]
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Being Unreasonable and Impractical
(c) Varun Madan This is the season for making resolutions. Everyone is making them. As I make...
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How Companies Build Leaders
Photo Courtesy: Rajbir Ahluwalia Fortune Magazine’s annual list of top companies for leaders...
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Hearing All Seven Notes
When I was in college, I had the opportunity to spend a day with Pandit Ravi Shankar, the sitar...
Books
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The Ruskin Bond Interview
Ruskin Bond’s first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John...
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Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman is a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in 2002 for contributions to Economics....
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Poems Come Home
Ask any publisher and they will tell you that people do not buy poetry. I have never understood...
Music
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The Charm of Raga Todi
There are many beautiful morning ragas in Hindustani Classical music. Raga Todi or Miyan ki Todi...
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The Charm of Raga Ahir Bhairav
“I woke up to the sound of Raga Ahir Bhairav, the legendary voice of Ustad Amir Khan rendering...
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Raga Ramkali – Morning Raga
Before I get to Raga Ramkali, a beautiful morning raga, I must spend a little more time talking...
Movies & Theatre
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The Dirty Picture
The star-struck girl runs away from home to become a movie star. She lands up being an “extra”...
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Mausam: A Review
Actor Pankaj Kapoor makes his debut as a director with the film Mausam (weather). Maybe that’s...
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Bubble Gum
Tanvi Azmi & Sachin Khedekar in Bubble Gum “One beautiful neighbor…One rival in love… Two...
Humor
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Travel Companions
This is the sight I dread the most when I travel. Knowing my luck, I have no difficulty finding...
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Train The Trainer
Let me get the basics out of the way. This post is not about how to get certified to run some...
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The Bengali Approach to Tourism
Every year, like any other average Bengali family, my parents would settle down to make an important...
This & That
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Coaching Classes for Parents
The Bollywood film Taare Zameen Par was perhaps a coaching class that the nation attended, on...
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Travel Companions
This is the sight I dread the most when I travel. Knowing my luck, I have no difficulty finding...
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Humor
I have always been fascinated by stories and more specifically, by funny stories. In India we...
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Ruskin Bond’s first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written over 500 short stories, novellas, poems and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999. His short stories “The Night Train at Deoli”, “Time Stops at Shamli”, and “Our Trees Still Grow in Dehra” have [...]
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