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Book Review | No room for atavism if India hopes to be a leading world power

The first distinction of importance is the definition of world powers and where India stands or seeks to stand

04 Mar 2023 11:38 PM

Book Review | Cong vs BJP: ‘Ideological’ analysis rings hollow sans class perspective

A study of ideology can hardly be divested from an enquiry into class, which is not undertaken here

04 Mar 2023 10:59 PM

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, Premchand

04 Mar 2023 10:49 PM

Book Review | Policies that leverage behavioural economics can effect positive change

One of the important tasks the book accomplishes is the systematic dismantling of various myths that tend to divide post-Independence history

26 Feb 2023 1:41 AM

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 drug regulation.

26 Feb 2023 1:39 AM

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Book Review | Allegory for a civilisation in crisis an ode to undying power of words

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

26 Feb 2023 1:37 AM

Book Review | Sensuous, meditative, Pico falters around people, but not with places

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

19 Feb 2023 12:49 AM

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

Interview | Our cities have neglected buses; built metro, boosted private transport: Varun Gandhi

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

19 Feb 2023 12:19 AM

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

Review of 'Insatiable' by Shobhaa De.

12 Feb 2023 12:36 AM

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Book Review | Hard-hitting social drama questions privilege

Review of 'No Way In' by Udayan Mukherjee

12 Feb 2023 12:30 AM

Book Review | Kashmiri lives matter: Book reveals how Congress betrayed ‘paradise’

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

11 Feb 2023 12:52 AM

Book Review | Classic Indian lad lit peppered with clichés

This novel is classic lad lit done Indian ‘ishtyle’

04 Feb 2023 11:41 PM

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 ones

04 Feb 2023 11:30 PM

Book Review | Book of everlasting Partition pain poignantly penned but lacks punch

Book review of 'The Book of Everlasting Things' by Aanchal Malhotra

29 Jan 2023 12:57 AM

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Book Review | The art of being a writer

Review of of 'If I Could Tell You' by Soumya Bhattacharya.

29 Jan 2023 12:54 AM

Book Review | Fast-paced noir thriller hard not to enjoy

Review of 'Manjhi’s Mayhem' by Tanuj Solanki

29 Jan 2023 12:51 AM

Book Review | Sultan of swing reveals much in splendid memoir

Book Review of 'Sultan' By Wasim Akram and Gideon Haigh.

22 Jan 2023 1:30 AM

Book Review | Crime and punishment lurk as accidents in the kitchen corner

Book Review of 'The Paradise of Food' by Khalid Jawed

22 Jan 2023 1:27 AM

Book Review | How love altered fate of kings, changed history

Review of 'Roving Eyes: Love, Lust and Battles of Indian Royalty' by S. Mahesh

22 Jan 2023 1:25 AM

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