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Book Review | Naval playing field: How post-Partition Amritsar...

If the time and place played a significant role in the making of Naval, one can't discount the influence of her rich...

23 July 2022 10:30 PM IST

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Book Review | Mysteries abound in ode to cricket's ultimate salesman

The wishful thinking that Lalit Modi would one day stage a comeback into Indian cricket betrays the bias in the author

23 July 2022 10:12 PM IST

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Book Review | The superheroes of the shore continue to surprise and...

These shifting battlegrounds are without villains, for the killers take what they need and no more

16 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

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Book Review | Novelist's craft transforms the Jallianwala Bagh story

The truth of fiction is different from the truth of history. It searches different registers, touches different chords

16 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

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Book Review | Teach our smaller citizens to know, not ignore, the...

The other tragic story of neglect that is told through these writings is that of the teachers

9 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

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Book Review | Exquisite stories that are not for the faint-hearted

While the stories are grisly, even horrific, Malik writes beautifully like an angel with imagination, craft and...

9 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

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Book Review | How a Sikh blazed a trail on a warplane in WWI Flanders

Hardit Singh Malik lived well past 90 and when he passed away, he still carried with him two bullets fired at him by a...

9 July 2022 11:55 PM IST

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Book Review | A hunter's compelling defence, with tips for a more...

The bloodthirsty hunter' in the case was the well-known or notorious depending on your point of view hunter Nawab...

3 July 2022 5:22 PM IST

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Book Review | Vivid, madcap stories with open endings

Mauzo's stories not just embrace unconventional themes, they also border on the bizarre, but the best thing is their...

3 July 2022 5:11 PM IST

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Book excerpt: How I got the scoop on Lalit Modi's BCCI exit and went...

That night in April, however, was different. The caller, I have to say in hindsight, influenced the decision-making to a...

3 July 2022 5:02 PM IST

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Book Review | The mountain lives to tell us what we know and no more

The conversation on climate change is ongoing. Direct in tone but not as powerful, the book adds little to that...

26 Jun 2022 12:19 AM IST

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Book Review | How youth is misspent in Kumbakonam

The acclaimed Tamil novel 'Pasitha Manidam', set in the Tamil heartland, is about human nature with its blemishes and...

26 Jun 2022 12:12 AM IST