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Books | The Asian Age
Book Review | Dragon rising: How India can help world
The well-researched book takes a bird’s eye view of the challenges that a rising and basically belligerent China presents to the world
24 Oct 2021 2:59 AM
Book Review | Cut down in their prime and living with the tag of ‘terrorist’
Overall, the book compiles the ordeals of 16 such young men
24 Oct 2021 2:43 AM
Book Review | Pandemic, and traumas past: Finding a gentler way forward
Reading Namita Gokhale’s latest book The Blind Matriarch is an essential, gentle remembering
24 Oct 2021 2:12 AM
‘A week’s plan works for me’
An inspirational story of three people who refuse to give up on themselves
21 Oct 2021 10:48 AM
Book review | Taut psychological thriller asks key political questions
It never feels like a dense psychological thriller, even though that is exactly what it is
10 Oct 2021 11:06 AM
Book review | Of teachers, creativity, change and other forces that mould us
The story traverses the lives of different social groups, making a comment here and there about the changes in society
10 Oct 2021 10:57 AM
Book review | Two exquisite odes to a pair of ancient cities
Part-history, part-travelogue and part-reportage, Biswas and Nabi’s extensive work traces the evolution of Shiva’s home by the Ganges
10 Oct 2021 10:31 AM
Book review | Strange life of a poem that revealed Buddha to world
Jairam Ramesh’s Light of Asia, there can be no doubt, is an altogether satisfying and successful experiment
10 Oct 2021 10:21 AM
Book Review | ‘Why does Nepal need constant reaffirmation of its sovereignty?’
Diplomat Ranjit Rae confirms the prickly nature of Nepali pride when it comes to India and attempts to lay bare its origin
30 Sep 2021 12:17 PM
Vir’s lesson: If you’ve done it, own it. At least the good part
Sanghvi’s sort of self-assured ankhon-hi-ankhon mein direct dialogue with the reader is rare for women
26 Sep 2021 7:58 AM
Book Review | A great river’s stories that inquire, inform
A classic example of realist eco-fiction, it effortlessly straddles the domains of geography, sociology, cultural history and anthropology
25 Sep 2021 11:33 PM
Book Review | Geeky startup ideator cheekily observes patriarchy
Anam’s pen has a flair for infusing humour into the storytelling, which jogged at a steady pace
25 Sep 2021 11:26 PM
Book Review | How the Dalai Lama beat Communists by spreading the Dharma
Author Alexander Norman’s book traces the tragic sequence of events that marked the Dalai Lama’s life
25 Sep 2021 11:18 PM
Book Review | Why I decided to pen down the story of Rezang La
In 2018, when the thought occurred to me about writing a book on the Rezang La battle, it came to me as an epiphany
16 Sep 2021 1:06 AM
Ambedkar’s Buddha inspires me more than Gandhi’s: Jairam Ramesh
I connect more with Ambedkar’s social revolutionary Buddha than Gandhi’s spiritual teacher, says Jairam Ramesh
13 Sep 2021 6:47 PM
Book Review | Rare and inspiring accounts from the 1971 war theatres
A serious drawback for India is that for over 74 years since its independence, its actual history has not been taught in school
12 Sep 2021 2:32 AM
Book Review | An immigrant’s progress and other scoops from Old Blighty
Did Ronald Reagan really think after seeing Attenborough’s film that Indira Gandhi was the Mahatma’s daughter?
12 Sep 2021 2:30 AM
Book Review | Smell the spirit of Bombay in the margins of these gritty stories
Potkar’s book with its exquisite use of catalogue, language that soothes and stabs, and sharp observations, is a sumptuous read
12 Sep 2021 1:28 AM
Book Review | When memory refracts into gripping fiction
It is the story of a 15-year-old bride in 1929 and her 18-year-old great grandson
29 Aug 2021 1:43 AM
Book Review | Finely rendered study of grief offset by predictable politics
The narrative deliciously dips into different times in the characters’ lives, never disrupting the flow
29 Aug 2021 1:27 AM
Columns
Respecting the right of party functionaries to speak out, without incurring punishment ought to be the norm rather than the exception
That ideal inspired Syama Prasad Mookerjee to break the law and court arrest, leading to his death, in Kashmir in 1953
Indian military officials just confirmed that the PLA has sent 50,000 troops to the India-Tibet border
On August 7, 2020, the SII, the country’s largest private vaccine manufacturer, signed an agreement with the global vaccine alliance GAVI