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Cover image of Crosswinds: Nehru, Zhou and the Anglo-American Competition over China

Book Review | At waltz of Dragon, Elephant, Lion, Eagle, Nehru's...

On the whole, the book offers us a reminder that the present may be equally difficult to weather as the storms over...

23 March 2024 1:38 PM IST

This is also a story of a friendship which has its beginnings in St Stephens College. Rukun was two years senior to Ram and much feared for his erudition and his love for Western classical music. By Arrangement

Book Review | Editor's honesty forges unlikely friendship in world of...

His first book, The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya, launched Guha's literary...

18 March 2024 12:27 AM IST

Cover image of Acts of God

Book Review | Scientist plays God in laboured science fiction

The writing is patchy: It's good most of the way, though often self-indulgent, sometimes turgid, and occasionally just...

17 March 2024 1:06 PM IST

Cover image of Razor Sharp

Book Review | Sympathetic detective, lame whodunit

It's only towards the fag end of the book that the author remembers he promised us a serial killer, and gets his act...

17 March 2024 12:54 PM IST

Cover image of The Yellow Book: A Travellers Diary

Book review | A writer's diary is a repository of ideas

One thread that runs through Kumar's Yellow Book is the pandemic

9 March 2024 8:49 PM IST

Cover image of Plot, Lies and Deceit: Pulwama and Balakot

Book review | Edge-of-seat thriller on an Indo-Pak showdown

Written in a simple style, with some Urdu sprinkled here and there, makes the book a good read

9 March 2024 8:40 PM IST

Laurent Daudet and Appupen

AI cannot imagine something new and original that can have impact...

The threat of AI-driven job loss and corporate takeover of the world is more real than we anticipated

9 March 2024 2:19 PM IST

Cover image of Love Jihad and Other Fictions

Book Review | When the fiction is so gratifying, can journalism be...

They expose systematically love jiihad, population jihad and Muslim appeasement with facts and figures

9 March 2024 2:15 PM IST

Book Review | Textbook on government foreign policy, not juicy thesis on Bharat

Book Review | Textbook on government foreign policy, not juicy thesis...

Foreign Minister Jaishankar's insightful analysis of India's global standing, though dense, sheds light on the nation's...

3 March 2024 12:00 AM IST

When I (Kai Bird) finished high school and went off to college, I thought I might want to be a lawyer. By Arrangement

In Facebook, there are no footnotes: Kai Bird

It's a terrific thing to win the Pulitzer and it is the only award in America that actually helps to sell books

2 March 2024 5:16 PM IST

Long after these events passed into history, the case would continue to capture the popular imagination books would be written, films made and it would even feature in TV series such as the Simpsons. By Arrangement

Book Review | Writer's muse parses a Victorian court drama

Zadie Smith's novel encompasses the Tichborne case but its scope is far wider

25 Feb 2024 1:20 PM IST

Rajens family business was in the hosiery trade in Calcutta (Kolkata). His granduncle D. Mehra had been introduced to the family business at an early age and was quite adept at selling hosiery, setting up shop at a pavement outside Kolkatas iconic New Market. DC Image

Book Review | How a hosiery salesman launched India's first indie...

Rajen had already moved to Delhi a decade earlier to establish Rupa's branch

25 Feb 2024 12:57 PM IST