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Devapriya Roy
Book review | Strange life of a poem that revealed Buddha to world
Jairam Ramesh’s Light of Asia, there can be no doubt, is an altogether satisfying and successful experiment
10 Oct 2021 10:21 AM
Book Review | B'bye chick lit, welcome cross-cultural crime fiction
Fate conspires to throw Bambi and Kashi together again — rekindling old sparks — when the club’s handsome Zumba instructor is found dead
25 Apr 2021 9:48 AM
Book REVIEW | Privilege-bound but absorbing study of rural Sri Lanka
A deeply absorbing novel of the old school, Beautiful Place is strongest when it portrays the worlds that the author is familiar with
07 Feb 2021 12:38 PM
A novel-in-stories charts the secret life of a neighbourhood
At the mouth of the lane, hanging perilously from a wrought iron pole is a plaque the colour of midnight blue.
12 Jan 2020 2:01 AM
Rereading A Suitable Boy during ‘unsuitable’ times
The thing with millennials is that they are usually quite tolerant of eccentricities — even encouraging of it at times.
31 Dec 2019 11:48 AM
Slim, fearless novel takes on the anomie of our times
Each character gets a “soliloquy” in their voice, only one.
22 Dec 2019 7:55 AM
A magical portrait of colonial Calcutta and an unlikely lovestory
Yasmine stood at the front, looking over the reservations.
20 Oct 2019 3:36 AM
‘My mentor suggested I should postpone The Novel’
At least four mugs of chai in a day, often more, sugar intake be damned, we all die in the end.
29 Sep 2019 1:37 AM
Don’t panic! Carry a towel for your safety
A still from the movie The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy in which two prominent characters (right) of the novel can be seen carrying a towel — the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.
25 May 2016 2:34 AM
New state of water molecule discovered
Picture this: There’s a molecule in state A. And let’s say, said molecule in state A wants to be in state B. But passing from state A to state B would cost the molecule some energy.
10 May 2016 11:27 AM
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It was obvious long before and reconfirmed after political strategist Prashant Kishor’s firm but polite refusal of party’s membership offer
The recent appointment of Archana Goyal Gulati, former member of Niti Aayog and CCI, at Google, has revived the old debate
As recent events demonstrate, every party prefers having the law enforcers acting as a private militia
Once it dawns on the judiciary that some laws are out of place in a 21st century democracy, then problematic laws will fall