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She faces an assassination attempt outside her home in Bangalore a week after demonetisation when people are still dying in bank queues, waiting to get their money. (Image: DC)

Racy Tribute to Gauri Lankesh Has Heart in the Right Place

The police had said that they suspected it was a cut-out assassination attempt

9 Sept 2023 5:37 PM IST

THE HEAVEN AND EARTH GROCERY STORE BY JAMES MCBRIDE. (Image: AA)

A mesmerizing Grocery store

A heartwarming story that spills with outrage, kindness, fear, compassion, and community spirit

6 Sept 2023 12:00 AM IST

A cigar-smoking monk, Vivekananda broke with stereotype. Well-versed in music and a polyglot, he was physically strong and good at various sports. (Image: DC)

Vivekananda's Hinduism valued human agency, rejected doxa

Vivekananda was outspoken regarding his thoughts on notions of purity

3 Sept 2023 9:13 AM IST

These four women are clearly invisible in Paris and unaware of each others existence. Then comes Covid-19, bringing the entire world to a halt and turning everyones life topsy-turvy. A series of mishaps or call it the hand of destiny and the four womens lives, too, are affected. (Image: DC)

Four lonely female immigrants struggle in Paris

Seventeen-year old Russian model Dasha dreams of walking the ramp for the biggest fashion moguls

3 Sept 2023 9:08 AM IST

There was no eureka moment in the chapter titled Manipurs Princes and Rebels: Assimilating and Separating Through the Ages . (Image: DC)

Chronicling Partition's impact east of Bangla, N-E othering'

Northeast India: Political History, the book, could not have come at a better time.

3 Sept 2023 9:04 AM IST

The long list of Indias most prestigious literature prize has been announced. (Photo: Twitter)

JCB Prize for Literature: Debut Novelists and Translations Shine in...

Four translations, three debut novels, ten dynamic, original, and trailblazing voices.

2 Sept 2023 11:10 PM IST

Cover photo of Memoirs of a Maverick: The First Fifty Years by Mani Shankar Aiyar. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Excerpt | Aiyar's pink curiosities very nearly cost him his...

Excerpt from Mani Shankar Aiyar's 'Memoirs of a Maverick'

27 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Cover photo of The Bird Man of India: Salim Ali for Children by Zai Whitaker. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Salim Ali: An unlikely beginning, a great end

It's the author's well-founded belief that Salim Ali's life offers today's children a role model.

27 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Cover photo of In the Body of a Woman: Essays on Law, Gender and Society by Aaliya Waziri. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Angsty examination of our body of laws through lens of...

What Waziri lays bare are the inequalities of our gender laws. The insensitivity of our judicial pronouncements.

27 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Book Review | Doughty subaltern teen beats trafficking, shows community new future

Book Review | Doughty subaltern teen beats trafficking, shows...

There is intrigue, excitement, suspense and action.

20 Aug 2023 12:27 AM IST

Cover photo of How Prime Ministers Decide, by Neerja Chowdhury. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Secrets & surprises: Oral testimonies of India's...

What Chowdhury unfolds is an engrossing narrative of event, turns out to be a political thriller.

20 Aug 2023 12:15 AM IST

Cover photo of An Unfinished Search by Rashmi Narzary. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | A family's quest amid shifting sands of identity

The author has dedicated the book to the rootless, separated, identity-less people, victims of war and Partition.

20 Aug 2023 12:08 AM IST