At the launch of his book, Memes For Mummyji, Desai expanded on the widening gap between urban aspirations and reality, saying that while our ambitions have grown, cities have lagged.
‘Divinity expresses itself not only in temples and rituals,’ said IRS officer and photographer Meenakshi Singh at the launch of her book Expressions of Divinity – Mahakumbh 2025.
Authors Anthony Vipin Das and Vidushi Duggal turned the magnets they collected during their travels into Around the World in Magnets–Sri Lanka, launched earlier this week.
Santosh Desai’s Memes for Mummyji is a collection of updated columns that tries to read India through the everyday effects of smartphones and digital...
The launch of Charlie’s Boys, a memoir of author Ajay Jain’s days at St Columba’s, gave a glimpse into the ‘larger-than-life’ presence of one of his most famous seniors.
A series of tweets on Gandhi’s lessons to celebrity anecdotes turned into 101 Twisted Tales by KR Mangalam University chancellor Dinesh Singh. Shashi Tharoor wrote the foreword.
Several smartly attired dogs were a part of the launch of Divya Dugar’s Chaos in a Coupe. ‘The book serves the purpose of evangelising dogs,’ said chief guest Shekhar Gupta.
At the launch of the book Power Pivots, former Haryana finance minister Abhimanyu Singh Sindhu said Haryana is ‘not what we read about from the lens of Delhi. It has changed a lot’.
At the launch of the book, The Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II, the panel highlighted how soldiers faced trial for treason in India after serving in the Indian National Army.
‘Swallowing the Sun ticked every box—it was always meant for the screen. The stories weave together the fabric of a nation,’ said producer Vikram Malhotra.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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