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Aloke Roy Chowdhury
About the AuthorAloke Roy Chowdhury
A discerning but prolific reader, one of India�??s most respected publishers, who understands the business of books, loves clever cinema and reads crime fiction compulsively. Email him at archome40@gmail.com.
    There are 15 other stories in this volume, all worth a dip. Some may not be as compelling as others. Even so, they deserve a read. By ArrangementBooks
    Book Review | Crisp whodunits, cute investigators

    The first volume is largely a selection of stories of private investigators following the whodunit template as...

    13 July 2024 5:41 PM IST

    Some time back, Raos young boss and former PM, Rajiv Gandhi, who had brought a whiff of fresh air into Indias corridors of power by ushering in a telecom and computer revolution, had died a horrible death, blown up by a human bomber. Before his death, a political upheaval had brought two short-lived coalition governments which had taken the country to a position from where it was about to default on a huge foreign loan. By ArrangementBooks
    Book Review | Rao unshackled the elephant, reforms took on human face

    P.V. Narasimha Rao had emerged as a consensus Prime Minister for a country in the throes of a financial crisis

    12 May 2024 1:22 PM IST

    This was against their fathers express wishes. It is now left to the readers to determine if the action of the children is an act of betrayal. By ArrangementBooks
    Book Review | Magical and unfinished, lost' novel leaves mysteries...

    Ten years after Marquez's death his children decided to publish Until August

    12 May 2024 1:18 PM IST

    This is also a story of a friendship which has its beginnings in St Stephens College. Rukun was two years senior to Ram and much feared for his erudition and his love for Western classical music. By ArrangementBooks
    Book Review | Editor's honesty forges unlikely friendship in world of...

    His first book, The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya, launched Guha's literary...

    18 March 2024 12:27 AM IST

    Long after these events passed into history, the case would continue to capture the popular imagination books would be written, films made and it would even feature in TV series such as the Simpsons. By ArrangementBooks
    Book Review | Writer's muse parses a Victorian court drama

    Zadie Smith's novel encompasses the Tichborne case but its scope is far wider

    25 Feb 2024 1:20 PM IST

    Book Review | Irish Dystopia and a Mothers Survival FightBooks
    Book Review | Irish Dystopia and a Mother's Survival Fight

    It is a serious work of fiction written in a style which demands the reader's focus

    15 Oct 2023 2:34 AM IST

    A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness. (Image AA)Books
    Unpacking the modern family, its ambitions and uncertainties

    A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness is his second literary endeavour

    17 Sept 2023 6:38 PM IST

    Cover photo of An Unfinished Search by Rashmi Narzary. (Photo by arrangement)Books
    Book Review | A family's quest amid shifting sands of identity

    The author has dedicated the book to the rootless, separated, identity-less people, victims of war and Partition.

    20 Aug 2023 12:08 AM IST

    Cut Carbon, not growthOpinion
    Cut Carbon, not growth

    Are countries which have not been responsible over decades, perhaps even over centuries, for huge greenhouse gas...

    23 Nov 2015 10:47 PM IST

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