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Sep 19, 20145 min read
Book Talk – Navtej Sarna on India’s Jerusalem connection | Reuters
ndian diplomat Navtej Sarna's latest book pieces together the history of an Indian "hospice" in Jerusalem. Spread over seven thousand...
Apr 12, 20145 min read
Little India in Jerusalem
Muinuddin Chisti laid the roots of the Chisti silsila in India based on the principles of contentment and compassion, abandonment and...
Dec 7, 20132 min read
Wounds We Reap
Book: Savage Harvest Author: Mohinder Singh Sarna Translated by Navtej Sarna Publication: Rupa 249 pages Price: Rs 295 Punjabi literature...
Oct 1, 20131 min read
The Exile Interview with Shubra Majumdar | AIR
An interview with AIR host Shubra Majumdar. Navtej Sarna talks about his latest book 'The Exile'. Listen to the interview below:
Aug 31, 20135 min read
The writer in winter
Somewhat embarrassedly, I must admit that I had not read Paul Auster, widely acknowledged as one of America’s leading novelists, till his...
Aug 3, 20134 min read
Remembrances of things past
The rain pours down. The glowering grey of the clouds thickens the green of the neem, the jamun, even the keekar trees of Delhi. Traffic...
Jun 1, 20135 min read
From easy rider to revolutionary
Browsing the bursting bookshelves at Bangalore’s bookshop, Blossoms, I found myself hoping for a small miracle: that from the piles of...
May 4, 20134 min read
Poems on the Sand
Some half a century ago, Paula Ben-Gurion, wife of Israel’s first Prime Minister looked over the hedge while pottering around her Tel...
Mar 3, 20135 min read
The superfluous man
It’s the same space in the sky, but that’s about it. The tall, straight-lined and right-angled Intourist Hotel, the pride of Soviet...
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