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Cover image of Covert: The Psychology of War and Peace by Amarjit Singh Dulat, Asad Durrani and Neil Krishan Aggarwal. (Image by Arrangement)

Book Review | India-Pak: Is peace via dialogue flawed?

An insightful dialogue between the two former spooks recorded in the form of a book

9 Jun 2024 12:05 AM IST

Cover photo of China Betrays Again by By Maj. Gen. Ashok Kumar, VSM (Retd). (Image by Arrangement)

Book Review | China standoff at LAC to boomerang on itself

China's LAC stand-off may actually be a nightmare for its never-tested-in-battle troops

9 Jun 2024 12:04 AM IST

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Book Review | The angst a social media trial can generate

The author is a reasonably well-known sports journalist who was a favourite of a former president of BCCI who promoted...

1 Jun 2024 1:02 PM IST

Cover page of Biopeculiar: Stories of an Uncertain World

Book Review | Whimsical mindbenders that disturb and delight

A collection of short stories in the realm of speculative fiction, the book hits two major pain points in my reading...

1 Jun 2024 12:57 PM IST

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Book Review | How India, Nepal let each other down

The book covers the past seven decades

1 Jun 2024 12:34 PM IST

Cover page of The Heartbreak Club

Book Review | The heart of a dark matter

This is a page-turner and can be categorised as a one-sitting delicacy with a lip-smacking aftertaste

25 May 2024 12:17 PM IST

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Book Review | An Indian with an Arab's inner reserves

Here is the strange case for today's India, which is turning ominously xenophobic

25 May 2024 12:10 PM IST

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