Wednesday, Sep 18, 2019 | Last Update : 03:14 PM IST
Books | The Asian Age
Agents anonymous
Author Anup Vijay cooks up a RAW thriller with his audiobook in Hindi — Zero to Bravo.
18 Sep 2019 12:09 AM
For the thrill of crime fiction
Rajesh Shankaran’s second crime thriller, Switch in Time, is inspired by women who defy old patriarchal norms.
18 Sep 2019 12:07 AM
Emergency, scrutinised through the female gaze
It is too easy to just set it in the Emergency or in India and the world of the 1970s.
15 Sep 2019 1:32 AM
A searing portrait of how NRC has Assam locked in a time warp
A considerable amount of the work is also finessed by her own networks of family and friends as well as professional contacts built up over the years.
15 Sep 2019 1:28 AM
One filmmaker’s campaign for nature, children of soil
The following year, the filmmaker went back to Netarhat to zoom in on the issue of deforestation; seven films came out of the workshop held in 2017.
13 Sep 2019 1:02 AM
Curated evenings for poetry connoisseurs
Initiatives like ‘Poetry under the Pilkan Tree’ offer poets a warm, appreciative, environment with an engaged audience of literary aficionados.
13 Sep 2019 12:55 AM
Coming-of-age page turner!
Whether you have grown up in Delhi or not, Yashodhara Lal’s new novel will transport you to your childhood.
11 Sep 2019 1:05 AM
Chilling to the core
Ex-Naval officer Kulpreet Yadav and actor Sushant Singh have co-authored Queens of Crime.
11 Sep 2019 1:05 AM
Platonic or corporeal? What Jawaharlal Nehru shared with Edwina
At first, they had written to each other every day, but within a year it was weekly and by 1954, it was fortnightly.
08 Sep 2019 2:42 AM
Kashmir’s still waters run deep
Doing so, he feels, would create the positivity needed to allow the new arrangements to reflect the spirit of the people of Kashmir.
08 Sep 2019 2:36 AM
Witty historical fantasy sadly loses the plot
Two more sets stood a merciful distance away. Ten bodies on each, long dead, missing limbs and most of their faces.
08 Sep 2019 2:32 AM
Whistle-blower vs Ranbaxy saga asks disturbing questions
New York-based journalist Eban’s 482-page book is truly an eye-opener.
08 Sep 2019 2:28 AM
What happened to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose?
The supposed funeral of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose was held on September 18, 1945, in the cold darkness of a wintry Japanese night.
06 Sep 2019 1:36 AM
Beware of that book on your shelf!
The book on one’s shelf at home, somewhat innocuous and a source of pride and joy, is no longer so.
06 Sep 2019 1:28 AM
A wicked view of the Indian uni experience
Set in the English Department of a sprawling university in Pune known as the Oxford of the East, we meet the most idiosyncratic faculty ever.
01 Sep 2019 3:26 AM
Who were the three guardian angels in Anupam Kher’s life?
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed internal Emergency on 25 June 1975, which lasted till end-March 1977.
01 Sep 2019 3:22 AM
Can instinct, instruction be combined to fashion a new liberal Islam?
Having said that the author proceeds to examine a variety of situations and reaction of Muslims as indeed of other people.
01 Sep 2019 3:19 AM
English beyond borders
Take a staunch Englishman to any of these places and he is sure to be appalled at the way sentences have been used.
28 Aug 2019 12:09 AM
Thrill’s the word
Kanchana Banerjee’s new crime-thriller is unapologetically naked in how it portrays characters.
28 Aug 2019 12:09 AM
All about fritters
Dig into this humdinger of a book to sample a few of the delights.
25 Aug 2019 2:43 AM
Columns
Domestic servants tend to be seated on different tables at restaurants because they are usually not allowed at the dining table in homes either.
It is true that there are more inter-caste and inter-faith marriages today than in the distant past.
Alongside, court proceedings have been instigated in Scotland and England.
The Taliban rubbed in their advantage by further threatening that hereon the situation “will lead to more losses to the US”!