After the end of an unusually challenging academic year, when I could finally read for leisure once more, I found I had two conflicting impulses. As the horrific second wave of the pandemic took off ...

I wrote this book during my stay in Washington DC for four years with a global readership in mind. That isprecisely why the social context which was implicit in the Marathi version has been fully ...

Mulk Raj Anand, one of India’s best-known writers of English-language novels and short stories, who attacked religious bigotry and exposed social injustice, died Tuesday of pneumonia in a western ...

The Tribune, now published from Chandigarh, started publication on February 2, 1881, in Lahore (now in Pakistan). It was started by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is ...

I am incapable of insulting the Sikh religion. My mother was a Sikh.” said Dr Mulk Raj Anand, the well-known author, commenting on the Panjab Government’s order banning his book Across the Black ...

Untouchable Mulk Raj Anand, who has died aged 98, was the author of a series of grimly realistic novels about India in the 1930s which, with the aid of fashionable Marxist convictions, earned him a ...

The concept of Untouchability does not only stand for making differences within the social classes of people based on caste, ...

Why is it that we don’t have writer-intellectuals like Mulk Raj Anand anymore? Why is it that we don’t have reformists like B R Ambedkar anymore? The impolite answer is that Anand’s and Ambedkar’s ...

When I decided to settle in Bombay in 1970, I didn’t know I’d rise to soaring heights within a year. The heights can be measured. Their location is a flat on the 18th floor of a building in Cuffe ...

In an extract from a novel, taken from an anthology published on this centenary year of the Jallianwala massacre, Mulk Raj Anand sketches the tense, rumour-filled, febrile atmosphere in Amritsar, and ...