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Its a series of essays about Sara Rais 1960s. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | Premchand's grandchild curates her memories

Only when I had the book in my hands did I realise that Sara Rai is the granddaughter of that great writer in Hindi,...

4 March 2023 10:49 PM IST

Cover photo of India in Search of Glory: Political Calculus and Economy by Ashok K. Lahiri. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Policies that leverage behavioural economics can effect...

One of the important tasks the book accomplishes is the systematic dismantling of various myths that tend to divide...

26 Feb 2023 1:41 AM IST

Cover photo of The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India by Dinesh S Thakur and Prashant Reddy T. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Shocking study on drug regulation leaves us wiser

What Thakur and Reddy have done here is a public service: To carefully lay out the problems we face when it comes to...

26 Feb 2023 1:39 AM IST

Cover photo of Victory City by Salman Rushdie. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Allegory for a civilisation in crisis an ode to undying...

Despite its serious subtexts, however, Victory City is, first and foremost, a joyous outpouring of the author's bravura...

26 Feb 2023 1:37 AM IST

Cover photo of The Half Known Life by Pico Iyer. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Sensuous, meditative, Pico falters around people, but...

Kashmir and Broome are the parts when The Half Known Life is at its best. It suffers when the people Iyer meets do not...

19 Feb 2023 12:49 AM IST

Cover photo of The Hyderabad Heist by Sharmishtha Shenoy. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | A captivating account of India's biggest museum heist

Review of 'The Hyderabad Heist' by Sharmishtha Shenoy.

19 Feb 2023 12:44 AM IST

Cover photo of The Indian Metropolis by Feroze Varun Gandhi. (Photo by arrangement)

Interview | Our cities have neglected buses; built metro, boosted...

Strapline: His latest book, The Indian Metropolis, highlights the challenges of urban India and is written over three...

19 Feb 2023 12:19 AM IST

Cover photo of Insatiable by Shobhaa De. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | De does not flinch from baring deepest frailties,...

Review of 'Insatiable' by Shobhaa De.

12 Feb 2023 12:36 AM IST

Cover photo of No Way In by Udayan Mukherjee. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Hard-hitting social drama questions privilege

Review of 'No Way In' by Udayan Mukherjee

12 Feb 2023 12:30 AM IST

Cover photo of Jammu & Kashmir: The Wounded Paradise by Jawaharlal Kaul. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Kashmiri lives matter: Book reveals how Congress...

Review of 'Jammu & Kashmir: The Wounded Paradise' by Jawaharlal Kaul.

11 Feb 2023 12:52 AM IST

There are clich©s after clich©s, but the author cannot really be faulted for that because most conservative Indians do fall into stereotypes! (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | Classic Indian lad lit peppered with clich©s

This novel is classic lad lit done Indian ishtyle'

4 Feb 2023 11:41 PM IST

Book Review | Putin, America and the war on truth in Ukraine

Book Review | Putin, America and the war on truth in Ukraine

Coming from a military historian such a view is astonishing given that all wars are brutal, including today's faceless...

4 Feb 2023 11:30 PM IST