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    Book Review | Compelling but one-sided critique of state repressionBooks
    Book Review | Compelling but one-sided critique of state repression

    A valuable document, this work nevertheless falls short when it comes to addressing the central question posed by its...

    30 Nov 2024 12:44 PM IST

    Book Review | Gritty Nancy’s memoir teaches how to inhabit powerBooks
    Book Review | Gritty Nancy’s memoir teaches how to inhabit power

    As the United States stands on the precipice ahead of its November 2024 elections, Nancy Pelosi’s memoir...

    26 Oct 2024 11:44 AM IST

    Book Review | Lessons on how to navigate the Indian realityBooks
    Book Review | Lessons on how to navigate the Indian reality

    Magsaysay Award-winning social activist Aruna Roy's memoir is a seismic jolt to the complacent conscience. She...

    10 Aug 2024 12:34 PM IST

    Cover page of Tits Up: What Our Beliefs about Breasts Reveal about Life, Love, Sex, and SocietyBooks
    Book Review | A witty biography of the most popular human body part

    The English language boasts over 700 terms for the breasts most of them coined by men

    6 July 2024 12:09 PM IST

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

    Cover page of The Man Who Lost IndiaBooks
    Book Review | Jingoistic war fantasy presented as speculative fiction

    The novel also throws a unique geopolitical situation into the mix

    20 April 2024 12:41 PM IST

    Cover image of Pain: A Portal to EnlightenmentBooks
    Book Review: Celebrity grief memoir feeds into trauma industry

    The book delves into scientific explanations of pain, misidentification of physical body, mind and character, the path...

    17 Feb 2024 1:33 PM IST

    Book Review | A Wounded Woman Speaks, a Bit too ArtlesslyBooks
    Book Review | A Wounded Woman Speaks, a Bit too Artlessly

    In her memoir Kundu employs a poetic monologue to bust the prison of her memories where she had been held hostage for...

    15 Oct 2023 2:36 AM IST

    From Manjunath to Manjamma: The Inspiring Life of a Transgender Folk Artist, By Harsha Bhat and Jogati Manjamma. (Image: DC)Books
    Book Celebrating Jogathi Hero Cuts Corners

    The book, From Manjunath to Manjamma, has been written by Harsha Bhat, a journalist and former senior sub-editor of...

    1 Oct 2023 12:00 AM IST

    Cover photo of A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo: The Life and Times of Syud Hossain by N.S. Vinodh. (Photo by arrangement)Books
    Book Review | Why India forgot Syud Hossain, its first ambassador to...

    For those seeking to understand the context of the Khilafat Movement, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, look no further.

    13 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

    Cover photo of Sovereigns of the Sea: Omani Ambition in the Age of Empire by Seema Alavi. (Photo by arrangement)Books
    Book Review | When Oman ruled Indian Ocean and how Dar es Salaam...

    This book is an important contribution for those who want to understand slave trade in the Indian Ocean.

    16 July 2023 12:30 AM IST

    Our strange universeOpinion
    Our strange universe

    It is generally assumed that the subject of astronomy has grown to its present form by a systematic process of...

    21 Oct 2016 12:05 AM IST

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