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Books | The Asian Age
Book REVIEW | A middle-aged writer navigates an alt-right world
Red Pill is a novel for our times—it captures the anxiety of ordinary citizens over growing racism and nationalism
17 Jan 2021 10:58 AM
Book REVIEW | A captain’s frank perspective on an unjust and devious war
A Ridge Too Far is a catchy but apt title reminiscent of A Bridge Too Far authored by Cornelius Ryan and made into a movie
17 Jan 2021 9:37 AM
Book REVIEW | What happens to women in a matriarchy, and other secrets
Mouthwatering descriptions of food have become a requisite for such novels but Gazi adds a twist to her descriptions
17 Jan 2021 8:03 AM
Top 10 Indian Best Selling Books: Fiction and Non Fiction
Ultimate guide for book lovers
07 Jan 2021 4:14 AM
BOOK REVIEW | What are the books we are excited about in 2021?
So many frills, thrills and spills! Reading good literature will help survive this pandemic
03 Jan 2021 4:53 AM
Book REVIEW | The importance of being earnest in a villainish and banal world
The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R. is not a political novel. It’s a novel set in politics, but it’s about Ruby and no one else.
20 Dec 2020 8:21 AM
Book REVIEW | A maverick cop’s gripping autobiography
The heart of the book is gripping not on account of any juicy, lazy gossip about key people
20 Dec 2020 7:41 AM
‘Even forthright women can be submissive’
Around the time she asked me to translate her book we had grown quite close, without really realising it - Shahana Raza
06 Dec 2020 10:52 AM
Book REVIEW | How Mowgli grew up, grew old and loved his mothers
The book chronicles Daniel’s journey in life, from the jungle to civilisation, from childhood till his sixties
06 Dec 2020 10:03 AM
Book REVIEW | Will social distances widen or reduce in a post-Covid world?
Serious Men by Manu Joseph is about a pair of opposites: a brahmin scientist, Arvind Acharya, and his dalit assistant, Ayyan Mani
06 Dec 2020 9:20 AM
Book REVIEW | The good doctor’s submissions
The book’s many, well-researched papers dealt with the larger issue of the state of healthcare in India
06 Dec 2020 9:16 AM
BOOK REVIEW | Marwari housewife’s sexcapades end on a surprisingly flat note
This book started out with promise, if only because of the dysfunctional family Srilaa grew up in
22 Nov 2020 12:00 AM
BOOK REVIEW | Preachy tone mars this quirky history of local pilgrimages
If you are familiar with Pattanaik’s earlier books, you will also note that this book is not quite in his usual style
22 Nov 2020 12:00 AM
BOOK REVIEW | A whitewashed portrait shorn of biases, insights
For this reviewer, the fact that a book has been written about V.P. Menon is insufficient.
03 Nov 2020 1:47 AM
BOOK EXCERPT | Saeeda Bano, 1st female Indian radio jockey, meets Akhtari Bai
Here is an excerpt from Saeeda Bano's biography
03 Nov 2020 1:13 AM
Towards an Indian realism
'The India way' is a clarion call to play the game of realpolitik
18 Oct 2020 7:58 PM
Telling the India story, one dream at a time
'A Burning' is an intimate and clear-eyed rendering of the lives and dreams of three people
18 Oct 2020 7:57 PM
Top Ten Books This Week
The ten best-selling books in fiction and non-fiction this week
25 Sep 2020 2:54 PM
Columns
Farm laws are intended to give Corporate India a legal licence to muscle in on these small guys who have unequal or no bargaining power
We have vaccinations slowly covering the population but as of now it will be Easter before the over 50s will be covered
An intolerant religion can never be the basis of nationhood and national unity in India
As an adolescent, like most others, I wrote those poems. Emotions crystallized in show-off nonsense from studying literature