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Book Review | Editor’s honesty forges unlikely friendship in world of letters

His first book, The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya, launched Guha’s literary career

18 Mar 2024 12:27 AM

Book Review | Scientist plays God in laboured science fiction

The writing is patchy: It’s good most of the way, though often self-indulgent, sometimes turgid, and occasionally just plain wretched

17 Mar 2024 1:06 PM

Book Review | Sympathetic detective, lame whodunit

It’s only towards the fag end of the book that the author remembers he promised us a serial killer, and gets his act together

17 Mar 2024 12:54 PM

Book review | A writer’s diary is a repository of ideas

One thread that runs through Kumar’s Yellow Book is the pandemic

09 Mar 2024 8:49 PM

Book review | Edge-of-seat thriller on an Indo-Pak showdown

Written in a simple style, with some Urdu sprinkled here and there, makes the book a good read

09 Mar 2024 8:40 PM

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AI cannot imagine something new and original that can have impact years later: Laurent Daudet

The threat of AI-driven job loss and corporate takeover of the world is more real than we anticipated

09 Mar 2024 2:19 PM

Book Review | When the fiction is so gratifying, can journalism be ever enough?

They expose systematically love jiihad, population jihad and Muslim appeasement with facts and figures

09 Mar 2024 2:15 PM

Book Review | Textbook on government foreign policy, not juicy thesis on Bharat

Foreign Minister Jaishankar's insightful analysis of India's global standing, though dense, sheds light on the nation's diplomatic victories

03 Mar 2024 12:00 AM

In Facebook, there are no footnotes: Kai Bird

It’s a terrific thing to win the Pulitzer and it is the only award in America that actually helps to sell books

02 Mar 2024 5:16 PM

Book Review | Writer’s muse parses a Victorian court drama

Zadie Smith’s novel encompasses the Tichborne case but its scope is far wider

25 Feb 2024 1:20 PM

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Book Review | How a hosiery salesman launched India’s first indie publishing giant

Rajen had already moved to Delhi a decade earlier to establish Rupa’s branch

25 Feb 2024 12:57 PM

Book Review | A tale of two CMs who put Andhra Pradesh on the path of modernity

The other figure in focus in this book is Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, arguably the only “people’s CM” undivided Andhra Pradesh has known

25 Feb 2024 12:53 PM

I write sense into anarchy, share that vision with reader: Manoj Rupda

Hindi writer Manoj Rupda sheds light on the inspiration, significance of silence and political undertones in his critically acclaimed novel

22 Feb 2024 10:39 PM

Book Review: For good diplomacy don’t just manage anger, channelise it!

The bottomline of India and Pakistan relationship is that normalcy is not possible until Pakistan reconciles to the reality and existence of India

17 Feb 2024 1:55 PM

Book Review: A plunge into the grim history of those ‘Little Indias’ around world

The web of deception that promoted indenture in India had many facets, and many facilitators

17 Feb 2024 1:52 PM

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Book Review: Celebrity grief memoir feeds into trauma industry

The book delves into scientific explanations of pain, misidentification of physical body, mind and character, the path to enlightenment,

17 Feb 2024 1:33 PM

Book Review | A reporter’s diary with thrilling stories only a newsman can tell

Mahendra recently celebrated his 75th birthday by penning his memoirs, @75 As I Saw It, a quintessential reporter’s diary

10 Feb 2024 12:20 PM

Book Review | Retro Indian heroine ticks off her milestones

Swallowing the Sun is about Malati who, along with her sister Kamala, is one of the only two girls going to school in Ratnagiri village

10 Feb 2024 12:16 PM

Interview | Lakshmi, Radha, Sita a triptych on the sacred feminine: Namita Gokhale

The oldest reference to Lakshmi is as Shri and she appears in the ‘Sri Suktam’ and the Satapatha Brahmana

10 Feb 2024 12:12 PM

Book Review | Aiyar’s Rajiv proves that there’s no one way to judge a dynast

A meticulous exploration of Rajiv Gandhi's tenure, revealing controversies, achievements, and the man behind the Prime Minister

04 Feb 2024 12:00 AM

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