Yoga in America: A checkered history

If you thought Swami Vivekananda was the first one to suggest yoga to Americans, think again, says Arthur J Pais Stefanie Syman, a journalist and yoga aficionado for over 15 years, asserted in her......

Desai, Mishra on New York Times' Top 100 books

Six weeks after winning the Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Inheritance of Loss, Kiran Desai is hardly out of the news. She appeared with her mother, the novelist Anita Desai, last week......

'Allen loved Calcutta, where poets were worshipped

In the early 1960s, journalist and Sikh historian Khushwant Singh met with a group of hippies who told him that they had left America for an Indian sojourn because they were fed up with......

Love and belonging in Kolkata

In February 1990 I married Amitav Ghosh before a crowd of strangers on the rooftop of his parents' house in Calcutta. Among them was the popular and prolific Bengali writer named Tarapada Roy.......