I wake up alone to leaden skies. There’s Of Mountains and Men, Himalayan Circuit and Stern Reckoning, a book of Partition stories, The Last Mughal and also my favourite — his quaintly titled memoir Memory’s Gay Chariot. There are the books I read as a teenager during my summer holidays, here in Manali — The Dam Busters, a World War …
The cold wave in North India is not just causing winter chills and shivers, but also inspiring creativity of some. While living in Delhi might feel like a hill station, Noida-based Angshuman Choudhury imagines how the city would look like if it got engulfed in snow. Choudhury’s creativity, conceived using Artifical Intelligence has resulted in a viral social media post. …
India is often thought of as largely vegetarian, and it is true that the country consumes less meat per head than many others but data show that 80% of the population does consume meat in some form. “The public perception is that we don’t have data in this country,” Choudhury says. “If it’s something else, then I sketch it out …
In a potentially embarrassing development for the Left-led coalition in West Bengal, veteran Congress MP Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury Tuesday pitched for an alliance with the TMC after the West Bengal assembly elections, if the situation so demands. "If a situation arises post the elections, we will support the TMC to form the government in West Bengal, this is my …