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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

Cover page of The Dilemma of an Indian Liberal

Book Review | India, essentially liberal? If not, should we celebrate...

The author is a retired corporate honcho and a marketing wizard

27 April 2024 1:30 PM IST

Cover page of Goagr@m

Book Review | Fashionista-influencer discovers Goa's susegad

Goagr@m is about Madhur, a young fashion designer who adopted social media as a business and branding tool

27 April 2024 1:24 PM IST

I feel I must embody the best version of my faith: Rana Safvi

All the world over, there is a lot of Islamophobia. And having travelled extensively, I have seen that.

20 April 2024 12:58 PM IST

Cover page of Audacious Hope: An Archive of How Democracy is Being Saved in India

Book Review | Manifesto of Indian citizen shows constant vigil must...

This is a remarkably simple but effective method of reminding citizenry that a fight for democratic rights and...

20 April 2024 12:47 PM IST

Cover page of The Man Who Lost India

Book Review | Jingoistic war fantasy presented as speculative fiction

The novel also throws a unique geopolitical situation into the mix

20 April 2024 12:41 PM IST