Adrift in the airport lounge
The short fiction series revolves around a group of people stranded at the Heathrow airport waiting lounge
Railways: Transforming the world
The author stands firm on giving the credit to the railways for laying the foundation for all the changes in society brought about by the industrial revolution
A history of cartography in India
The author has done a great service to map lovers everywhere with this book
Salt mining in Sahara
The author is transformed by the immensity of the desert and the sturdiness of the people during his travel with a caravan
Journey of the nomadic Tuaregs
The book dwells on the theme of land and displacement and gives a sensual description of the Sahara desert
City of forgotten dreams
The book unravels the constellations of social, institutional and religious histories of Pakistan
The river’s story
The book combines the history, legends, mythology, religion, festivals, commerce, warfare and geography of the sacred river Kaveri
The mangrove goddess
In an excerpt from her new book, In Good Faith: A Journey in Search of an Unknown India, the author meets a unique deity, Bonbibi, in the Sunderbans
A tale of two grandmothers
An extract from André Béteille–s Sunlight on the Garden: A Story of Childhood & Youth, where the author talks about an idyllic childhood in the French enclave of Chandannagar
Comic misadventures
This book should be compulsory reading for the proudly Indian — seeing ourselves as others see us
Travel classic: Travels in the Mogul Empire
Annie Zaidi–s assumptions about the Mogul Empire got cleared after reading Francois Bernier–s book
Tales of woe
This carefully tempered prose has it all — from Chernobyl to Yamuna — places that one would like to see in a different light
Avian antics
Even the most commonplace fliers like crows and drongos are transformed into objects of interest by the author