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Book Review | Pakistan, to a woman’s eyesBooks
Book Review | Pakistan, to a woman’s eyes

A Pakistan posting for an Indian diplomat is both a challenge and an opportunity of a lifetime. It is doubly...

31 Aug 2024 8:22 AM

Book Review | First-wave Indian feminist who was multi-talentedBooks
Book Review | First-wave Indian feminist who was multi-talented

I write this review with mixed feelings. I asked for this book, because Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay is such an...

31 Aug 2024 8:16 AM

Book Review | Punjabi social realism, subtle & hard-hittingBooks
Book Review | Punjabi social realism, subtle & hard-hitting

Hard-hitting is a mild word for this collection of short stories by Hindi author and playwright Swadesh...

31 Aug 2024 8:10 AM

Book Review | Gardens are a way of life in DelhiBooks
Book Review | Gardens are a way of life in Delhi

Originally a ‘semi-desert’, the history of Delhi can be traced through its gardens. The very first trees planted...

3 Aug 2024 5:55 AM

Jadu seems destined to succeed. His mother, pregnant with him, survives a cobra bite, delivers him, and, in later years, delivers two more children, both girls, one of whom dies after a mysterious encounter with a fox . DC ImageBooks
Book Review | The '30s-born Bihari man's best life

Book Review | The '30s-born Bihari man's best life

13 July 2024 11:57 AM

Book Review | ‘I Write Lest I Succumb to Savagery’Books
Book Review | ‘I Write Lest I Succumb to Savagery’

The haunting title for this piece is taken from one of the editors, Al-Zaqzooq’s own heart-wrenching prose account of...

26 April 2025 7:35 PM

Book Review | A Challenging Thought Anthology On The Idea of IndiaBooks
Book Review | A Challenging Thought Anthology On The Idea of India

There would be many who will argue that other schools of thought, especially the Charvakas, or the Materialist School,...

26 April 2025 7:32 PM

Book Review | Prepare for slow reading and much thinkingBooks
Book Review | Prepare for slow reading and much thinking

Human life as we know it is on the brink of extinction, and several communities are tasked to preserve life under the...

26 April 2025 7:29 PM

Book Review | A Nobel Laureate’s Sense of SnowBooks
Book Review | A Nobel Laureate’s Sense of Snow

A message from a close friend and professional partner, a photographer, Inseon, wakes Kyungha from this existence....

19 April 2025 2:02 PM

Book Review | Ideal, Idyllic Bhutan Still Young and RestlessBooks
Book Review | Ideal, Idyllic Bhutan Still Young and Restless

From the author’s account of the political processes in his country, it is obvious that the country’s polity is deeply...

19 April 2025 12:30 PM

Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist HeroesBooks
Book Review | Two Marginalised Communist Heroes

Yet remarkable and compelling as their stories may be, there is an unsteadiness to this juxtaposition, an awkwardness of...

19 April 2025 12:28 PM

China Funding Militancy in Northeast, Claims New Book On Modi GovtNation
China Funding Militancy in Northeast, Claims New Book On Modi Govt

Guwahati: China has been funding scores of separatist and militant groups in the Northeast region, claimed a new...

13 April 2025 8:07 AM

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