'Hindu philosophy was sophisticated under Mughals'

'Second-class citizenship would have been meaningless to a Hindu in the Mughal empire.' IMAGE: Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (1618-1707). Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images   Not long ago,......

India, Merchant-Ivory and the Oscars

Making her film debut with The Householder, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala wrote more screenplays than novels, winning two Oscars -- for A Room with a View and Howards End.She kept her distance from the film......