The authors have resisted the temptation to delve into any single personality, historic incident or theory at too much length
06 Feb 2022 2:47 AM
Written originally in Tamil, the Sahitya Akademi Award winner, Meeran’s Stories are translated into English by Prabha Sridevan
06 Feb 2022 2:14 AM
At the outset, Ramesh tells us that his book is not prescriptive or preachy nor is it a compass with a clear direction
29 Jan 2022 6:48 PM
The book is not merely about the paintings, (painted between 1800-1825 in Guler, or Kangra) but equally about the text that inspired them
29 Jan 2022 6:46 PM
Mughals grabbed resources and richer land in the form of eastern Bengal and converted its residents into their own faith
29 Jan 2022 6:44 PM
Is ‘The Braided River’ a travelogue, a personal pilgrimage, a historical search for origins and beginnings or a political commentary?
22 Jan 2022 6:47 PM
The slim volume is valuable in that it draws readers into the world of Tamil writing of which they would otherwise be deprived
22 Jan 2022 6:45 PM
It is not always that a journalist gets a chance to be part of history in the making
22 Jan 2022 6:43 PM
Madam Prime Minister is a racy novel with political games, scandals, and a bit of romance thrown in
09 Jan 2022 1:36 AM
The opening pages of the book argue that India was always rich. Certainly it was
09 Jan 2022 1:34 AM
Our cricketing icons of that period turned out in sparkling whites for India, not for pelf or power but for the sheer enjoyment of the game
09 Jan 2022 1:32 AM
The section on fashion links the relevance of the hand crafted tradition to environmental concerns and sustainability
02 Jan 2022 11:50 AM
Hachette India republished the book to coincide with streaming of the original series The Wheel of Time on Prime Video
02 Jan 2022 2:45 AM
The first British who came to rule India were men of the Enlightenment with an intense curiosity
02 Jan 2022 2:29 AM
The history of Lupin has an uncanny similarity with that of Sherlock Holmes in the sense the character assumed a much larger than life role
26 Dec 2021 1:46 AM
Having learnt the lessons of history better than India, China bided its time and positioned itself to humiliate India whenever possible
26 Dec 2021 1:38 AM
In the Introduction, the author-compilers say Nehru’s vaulting vision was in practice tempered by the 'more mundane world of politics'
26 Dec 2021 1:21 AM
The book is raw, dark, and, surprisingly tender
19 Dec 2021 2:31 AM
Modi’s pro-poor, anti-establishmentarian populism did not really translate into pro-poor policies or help the poor to improve their lot
19 Dec 2021 1:51 AM
The novel plays out in a sequence of episodic chapters, each dealing with a separate case
18 Dec 2021 6:58 PM