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Cover page of The Elephant Moves Indias New Place in the World

Book Review | Armchair economics! This room is all elephant

The book's omissions are glaring, leaving critical gaps in its analysis of India's economic landscape

22 Jun 2024 11:52 AM IST

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Book Review | Of Feluda, dry days': A whimsical look, but serious too

Though the slim volume is thick with cultural cross-references, it is the pop culture stardust of Bengal, Hazra's...

15 Jun 2024 12:59 PM IST

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Book Review | The voice of the Nepali American

Ranjan Adiga, both as a writer and as a Nepali-American, has always been fairly vocal about the contemporary issues...

15 Jun 2024 12:25 PM IST

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Book Review | A capitalist's diagnosis of what ails capitalism

Sharma paints a vivid picture of the story of market crises, especially the 2008-09 financial markets meltdown

15 Jun 2024 12:18 PM IST

Cover image of Blasphear by Sohail Rauf. (Image by Arrangement)

Book Review | Hyper-real horror-mystery set in fundamentalist universe

This book is an excellent lesson on how religious outfits prey on students

9 Jun 2024 12:10 AM IST

Cover image of Covert: The Psychology of War and Peace by Amarjit Singh Dulat, Asad Durrani and Neil Krishan Aggarwal. (Image by Arrangement)

Book Review | India-Pak: Is peace via dialogue flawed?

An insightful dialogue between the two former spooks recorded in the form of a book

9 Jun 2024 12:05 AM IST

Cover photo of China Betrays Again by By Maj. Gen. Ashok Kumar, VSM (Retd). (Image by Arrangement)

Book Review | China standoff at LAC to boomerang on itself

China's LAC stand-off may actually be a nightmare for its never-tested-in-battle troops

9 Jun 2024 12:04 AM IST

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Book Review | The angst a social media trial can generate

The author is a reasonably well-known sports journalist who was a favourite of a former president of BCCI who promoted...

1 Jun 2024 1:02 PM IST

Cover page of Biopeculiar: Stories of an Uncertain World

Book Review | Whimsical mindbenders that disturb and delight

A collection of short stories in the realm of speculative fiction, the book hits two major pain points in my reading...

1 Jun 2024 12:57 PM IST

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Book Review | How India, Nepal let each other down

The book covers the past seven decades

1 Jun 2024 12:34 PM IST

Cover page of The Heartbreak Club

Book Review | The heart of a dark matter

This is a page-turner and can be categorised as a one-sitting delicacy with a lip-smacking aftertaste

25 May 2024 12:17 PM IST

Cover page of Ebrahim Alkazi: Holding Time Captive

Book Review | An Indian with an Arab's inner reserves

Here is the strange case for today's India, which is turning ominously xenophobic

25 May 2024 12:10 PM IST