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Cover page of Just a Mercenary? Notes from My Life and Career

Has the IAS failed the nation? D. Subbarao shares his views

The narrative is straightforward, guileless, compassionate and full of insights

18 May 2024 2:11 PM IST

Cover page of Just a Mercenary? Notes from My Life and Career

Book Review | Brilliance, empathy, simplicity qualities that define...

The subtitle of the book Notes from My Life and Career is significant

18 May 2024 1:55 PM IST

Cover page of Both Not Half: A Radical New Approach to Mixed-Heritage Identity

Citizenship not emotive but must be bedrock of national identity

National identity has always been, and always will be, a political project

18 May 2024 11:41 AM IST

Cover page of Butter

Book Review | If cooks could kill: The enigma of the ugly femme fatale

This novel gives you a delicious taste of modern Japanese food

18 May 2024 11:01 AM IST

Some time back, Raos young boss and former PM, Rajiv Gandhi, who had brought a whiff of fresh air into Indias corridors of power by ushering in a telecom and computer revolution, had died a horrible death, blown up by a human bomber. Before his death, a political upheaval had brought two short-lived coalition governments which had taken the country to a position from where it was about to default on a huge foreign loan. By Arrangement

Book Review | Rao unshackled the elephant, reforms took on human face

P.V. Narasimha Rao had emerged as a consensus Prime Minister for a country in the throes of a financial crisis

12 May 2024 1:22 PM IST

This was against their fathers express wishes. It is now left to the readers to determine if the action of the children is an act of betrayal. By Arrangement

Book Review | Magical and unfinished, lost' novel leaves mysteries...

Ten years after Marquez's death his children decided to publish Until August

12 May 2024 1:18 PM IST

The Scent of Fallen Stars is the story of [a mother] and [a daughter] and the many forms of love and an unending search for the self. By Arrangement

Book Review | Tale of two (or more) Delhis cinematic, but inexact

To bring to life this city as an experience is, perhaps, what Aishwarya Jha attempted to do, within the narrative she...

12 May 2024 1:14 PM IST

In the intensive care unit of the hospital, the professor has a senior nurse, Shiny, to look after him. She has her own concerns, notably a daughter who has failed to make it to medical school and is of what she considers a marriageable age. By Arrangement

Book Review | Covid patient muses about state of the nation

He is a scholar, a former teacher, erudite and thoughtful, and has traveled all over the world

4 May 2024 1:08 PM IST

Although Deb solves the murder she sets out to investigate, the explanation for an extraneous jigsaw piece from her quest comes from her mentor Marco, who had been roped in by Kolkata police to help with the murder investigation of an African woman, whose corpse was found in Bandel a parallel story. By Arrangement

Book Review | Woman-led juicy whodunit packs a bionic punch

Koel Deb is commissioned by the state home minister, Nirav Subhash, to investigate the murder of a famous Bollywood...

4 May 2024 12:58 PM IST

The attack happened at a particularly happy time for Rushdie. He was in love he had married the poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths the previous year (he is cloyingly admiring when he writes about his current wife) and he was awaiting the release of his latest novel, Victory City. By Arrangement

Book Review | Knife-edge of an artist's vision cuts through fear and...

Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder is not only Rushdie's account of that violent act it is also his way of ...

4 May 2024 12:53 PM IST

Arun frames his argument as a descriptive and diagnostic one, aiming to show how Modi regime has come to wield a near-total control over the media with much of the mainstream journalism is transformed into ventriloquism. By Arrangement

Book Review | Lutyens media versus Laurels media

Essays in anthology show how regime uses tamed media as ideological militia to intoxicate masses with disinformation and...

3 May 2024 5:10 PM IST

Then theres your identity how AI systems identify people from, say, a still from a video of a person captured on a surveillance camera. By Arrangement

Book Review | ChatGPT lies, but the AI genie is out of the bottle

The difficulty is not the training itself but how exploitative it is

27 April 2024 5:32 PM IST