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Book Review | Lessons on how to navigate the Indian reality

Magsaysay Award-winning social activist Aruna Roy's memoir is a seismic jolt to the complacent conscience. She...

10 Aug 2024 12:34 PM IST

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Book Review | When India let Tibet down

Time and again history has shown that great powers tend to shape the world according to their...

10 Aug 2024 12:29 PM IST

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Book Review | As Gaza bleeds, a memoir!

This compelling book is a composite of “memoir with a deeply historical narrative”. It presents both a fascinating...

3 Aug 2024 11:59 AM IST

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Book Review | A mother and a free spirit?

Just how well do you or did you know your mother? Anita Desai explores the mother-child relationship in her new...

3 Aug 2024 11:52 AM IST

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Book Review | How books transform lives

This book, originally published in German, and very well translated into English by Melody Shaw, is a story set in...

27 July 2024 1:52 PM IST

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Book Review | The audacious flight of IndiGo

The story of IndiGo airlines was long overdue and the author has scripted a book just the way a hard-nosed reporter...

27 July 2024 1:39 PM IST

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Book Review | So many windows to minds of great Indian poets, seers

Welcome to language scholar and sitarist Srinivas Reddy’s distillation of the multifarious texts that together...

27 July 2024 1:31 PM IST

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Book Review | Crisp whodunits, cute investigators

The first volume is largely a selection of stories of private investigators following the whodunit template as...

13 July 2024 5:41 PM IST

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Book Review | How a girl fought and won against rape culture

While giving detailed descriptions of situations and incidents, Krishnan also introspects with great frankness and...

13 July 2024 5:37 PM IST

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Book Review | Rebirth of a classic on Indian coal town

The prose is fluid and inviting, as it keeps the reader hooked to the seemingly ordinary life of the characters

6 July 2024 12:20 PM IST

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Book Review | Train of nostalgia to '60s Bombay

One story stands out as obvious fiction: it's about a young British lady who visits India to marry a wealthy British man

6 July 2024 12:13 PM IST

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Book Review | A witty biography of the most popular human body part

The English language boasts over 700 terms for the breasts most of them coined by men

6 July 2024 12:09 PM IST