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Aamer Hussein’s creative memoir is a book of such great riches and, indeed, courage, that it is difficult to put it down

Railways on the African continent tell the stories of imperial ambition, and of urban development that forever changed how settlements functioned.

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He Light of Asia: The Poem that Defined the Buddha by Jairam Ramesh, Gurugram: Penguin Random House, 2021; pp 457, ₹799 (hardback).

Sir Edwin Arnold’s 5,300-line epic about the Buddha became an unlikely million-copy bestseller – and he wrote it while running a newspaper

Jairam Ramesh’s Light of Asia, there can be no doubt, is an altogether satisfying and successful experiment

Kedar Nath Das Gupta: The Gandhian theatre producer who tried to build peace in the world A ‘godly dreamer’ of peace, Das Gupta believed that the arts and literature could bridge differences between people. 17 hours ago Kedar Nath Das Gupta (standing, extreme right) at a conference of world religions in 1927 with (sitting, from left to right) Anagarika Dharmapala (Buddhist), Dr FW Norwood (Protestant), Dr Annie Besant (Theosophist), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Spiritualist), Rev A...

‘The Buddha didn’t become a Buddha by following a Buddha’ July 10, 2021, 8:22 AM IST Viju B, an Metro Editor with The Times of India, Kochi, writes on a range of issues, including environment, civic infrastructure, insurance and right to information. He believes that his views are not sacrosanct - nor are yours. The truth is somewhere in the middle, smiling beatifically at us. He feels that any form of fundamentalism, be it of the markets or the state, can be harmful and...

Book Review: Throwing Light on the Lives and Times of Sir Edwin Arnold Jairam Rameshs recent The Light of Asia: The Poem that Defined The Buddha takes on a subject of limited scope to construct a highly readable kaleidoscope of Arnold and his work. Sir Edwin Arnold’s The Light of Asia. Books27/Jun/2021 One thing is not in doubt. Jairam Ramesh is the quintessential, scholarly researcher. He can pick up relatively off-stream subjects, like his tomes on P.N. Haksar and Krishna Menon, and delv...

Search Jairam Ramesh explains the many strands of The Light of Asia Buddha and Gandhi, Churchill and Nehru share the spotlight at the launch of a book on one of history’s most famous poems Jairam Ramesh’s book The Light of Asia: The Poem that Defined the Buddha is a compelling and comprehensive account of the epic poem of the same name authored by Sir Edwin Arnold that was first published in 18...