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How to Read Salman Rushdie
If you ask someone how to read Salman Rushdie, you would often hear that it’s going to be a hard task. That might be true. At the same time, it’s also true that the effort comes with rewards… and the rewards in this case are outrageously wonderful. Rushdie is not just a storyteller. While telling Read more
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How Islam Came to India
Note: Following excerpts were taken from Khushwant Singh’s non-fiction work ‘India: An Introduction’. Islam came to India before the Muslim conquerors. Arab traders brought Islam to the western coast within a few years of the death of the Prophet. Then in AD 712 the seventeen-year-old Mohammed Bin Qasim invaded Sindh. This incursion was, however, as Read more
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How Christianity Came to India
Note: Following excerpts were taken from Khushwant Singh’s non-fiction work ‘India: An Introduction’. Christianity came very early to India. Thomas Didymus, the apostle, came to Malabar in the year AD 52. Although his mission was to convert Jews who had preceded him to India, once in the country, he decided to take on the gentile Read more
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Inside Saadat Hasan Manto’s World
Saadat Hasan Manto was a rare writer who captured the essence of India and Pakistan equally well, especially the dark sides of these two societies which used to be one before the partition of India in 1947. And he lived through all of this. Born in Punjab and having spent many years in Bombay working Read more
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7 Things About ‘The Guru Granth Sahib’ You Didn’t Know
Not too many people around the world know much about Sikhism. Occasionally you see or hear about the turban-wearing Sikh men doing community services in various parts of the world, but rarely do we talk about their beliefs. There are over 25 million Sikhs around the world and most of them live in the Punjab Read more
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3 Pandemic Lessons from Albert Camus’s The Plague
The Plague is a novel about a plague epidemic in the large Algerian city of Oran. It was written by Albert Camus, a Nobel prize winning author, in 1947. While any novel – and certainly this one – is more about the world one experiences as one delves deep into it, there are still occasions when Read more
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