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East & West: Stories of India. (Image: DC)

Book Review | An American bride tells the Indian story

Catherine Ann Jones unveils a collection of 15 stories that beautifully celebrate India

28 Jan 2024 12:00 AM IST

Cover page of Breaking the Mould: Reimagining Indias Economic Future

Book Review | India almost middle-income, yet needs to become thinking...

One of the reasons for India's relatively slow growth, the authors argue, is the problem with manufacturing

20 Jan 2024 2:00 PM IST

Book Review | A badass female IPS officer shares her journey

Book Review | A badass female IPS officer shares her journey

As she sums it up at the end, it was a journey, of which she enjoyed every minute, with a passion for living life to the...

20 Jan 2024 1:49 PM IST

Actress, dietician, poet and hobby runner Maria Goretti

Like food, literature omnipresent in all our lives: Maria Goretti

I write about life and love, and everything in-between. I don't really dwell on objects

20 Jan 2024 1:45 PM IST

Cover page of From Phansi Yard: My Year with the Women of Yerawada

Book Review | Lawyer's ballad' of Yerawada Jail reflects on the lives...

This resident of Phansi Yard has a writer's sensibility, and says in a matter-of-fact way

13 Jan 2024 1:18 PM IST

Cover page of Historys Angel

Book Review | A beautiful slow-burn novel sums up the Indian Muslim's...

No, it's a Muslim Delhi novel. It's an almost-historical novel. It's a contemporary novel

13 Jan 2024 1:01 PM IST

Cover page of Guilt Trip and Other Stories

Book Review | Women's doubts and decisions, gracefully deciphered

As straightforward as they seem, the stories in Guilt Trip work on several levels

13 Jan 2024 12:49 PM IST

Fighting Retreat: Winston Churchill and India By Walter Reid. (Image: DC)

Book Review | Churchill's policy towards India was dishonest and...

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion

7 Jan 2024 12:00 AM IST

Traitors Gate By Jeffrey Archer. (Image: DC)

Book Review | Old-fashioned heist thriller goes down to the wire

Can the thieves get the better of the police or will the police force outsmart them?

7 Jan 2024 12:00 AM IST

The Perfume Project By Divrina Dhingra. (Image: DC)

Book Review | An obtrusive storyteller's fascinating project

A series of Indian scents takes the reader on a journey far and wide

7 Jan 2024 12:00 AM IST

In addition to such symbols of fraternity as staying frequently with Muslim hosts, such as Dr. Ansari, and his companions from Khilafat days, the Maulana brothers Mohammed and Shaukat Ali and acting as a pallbearer when their remarkable mother, Bi-Amma, dies,he spent his last night before he famously picked up a fistful of salt mixed with mud to defy the colonial regime at the Dandi home of Shiraz Abdullahbhai. By Arrangement

History & realpolitik, from the mouth of the Mahatma

The enduring theme of the Mahatma's concerns is the imperative of Hindu-Muslim unity

30 Dec 2023 4:31 PM IST

Not being committed to any ideology was an advantage. It enabled Mukherjee to assess events and individuals from a relatively independent standpoint. By Arrangement

Book Review | A career unimpeded by ideology & protected by Indira's...

Not that the future President of India waffled. He was vigorously involved on many fronts and always a vocal theorist

23 Dec 2023 5:06 PM IST