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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...