The Hindu, Sunday Magazine, May 2013 In the vast and ever-fascinating mosaic that forms the history of India, the Mughal period sits like an exquisite miniature, a period piece framed by a mere two centuries [...]

Published by The Hindu, August 27, 2011 The Black Rock I am alone. A cocoon envelopes me; a grey nimbus of fatigue, torpor and pain. The icy December wind sweeps in from the north-east and [...]

Published by The Hindu, November 6, 2010 The sky is red in clouds, and from the terrace of the Lake Palace Hotel the eastern shore of Lake Pichola presents a fantastical panorama straight out of [...]

Sunday Magazine May 2010 Some seventy million years ago the Indian subcontinent, traveling northwards on the Ocean of Tethys, slammed into Asia in one of the greatest geological events in the Earth’s history. The immense [...]

Sunday Magazine, February 2010 In this first of a two-part series, Aroon Raman recounts the extra-ordinary story of one of medieval India’s most heroic yet little-known princes Part I The End of an Age The [...]

Sunday Magazine, December 2009 PART I On a warm summer’s day in June 1921, a man stood by the imposing gopuram of the Parthasarathy Temple in Chennai, feeding fruit to the temple elephant. The glances [...]