Hungary's Krasznahorkai, whose pensive oeuvre straddles East and West, conferred Literature Nobel

Vikas Datta | October 9, 2025 6:14 PM

New Delhi, Oct 9 (IANS) In line with the objective of bringing seminal authors to greater global renown, the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature was conferred on Hungarian litterateur Laszlo Krasznahorkai, whose demanding, yet pensive, post-modern, near-surrealist works draw on the traditions of Nikolai Gogol, Frank Kafka, and Samuel Beckett, but go ahead to span both his Central European milieu and that of the mystic East.

'Epic Exercise': Reaping the 'Ramayan' for rare life lessons (Book Review)

IANS | October 1, 2025 8:53 PM

New Delhi, Oct 1 (IANS) Long revered as India's preeminent religious epic, an integral constituent of its religious and cultural landscape, and much familiar to the populace due to its manifold presentations, especially in the visual media and the Ramlilas, the Ramayana has a resonance beyond its key motifs of cosmic dualism, religious duty, and Hindu theogony.

Plumbing the profound with perspicacious poetics (Book Review)

Vikas Datta | June 30, 2025 10:59 AM

New Delhi, June 30 (IANS) "Through smog and soot and horrid dust,/You will have to endure/To make a wage..." This verse can evoke a more eloquent exposition of our polluted urban agglomerations and the imperative to brave the degraded air as we move around for our daily sustenance than the most well-researched report.

'History that India Ignored' challenges conventional notions about Independence movement

IANS | June 22, 2025 10:39 PM

New Delhi, June 22 (IANS) Veteran journalist Prem Prakash's latest book 'History that India Ignored', is a piercing re-examination of India's Independence movement. The book challenges several conventional notions related to the freedom movement, with the most widely discussed being Mahatma Gandhi's role in steering the nation towards freedom in 1947.

How Zardari managed to get Gen Musharraf to resign as Pakistan President

IANS | May 27, 2025 3:57 PM

Islamabad, May 27 (IANS) Pakistan's present President Asif Ali Zardari managed his first term by skilfully getting then incumbent Pervez Musharraf to resign in August 2008 by securing the backing of his successor as Army chief, and then, outmanoeuvring coalition ally Nawaz Sharif, his former aide has revealed.