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A dream world more real than reality

A dream world more real than reality

Instead, Manisha, like many urban working wives, shuts out the world through a bottle.

27 March 2018 7:00 PM

Diary of a Domestic Diva Shilpa Shetty Kundra, Penguin India, pp.399, Rs 219

Diva in the kitchen

Recipes from Shilpa Shetty Kundra's kitchen that are a carnival of happy flavours, and celebrate food both nutritious...

27 Feb 2018 7:33 PM

Woman to woman by Madhulika Liddle Speaking Tiger Rs 299.

Memories weighed down by grief

Short stories about the longings and frustrated desires of women who hope for a great deal out of life but end up...

9 Jan 2018 6:41 PM

Archer divides his stories into crime and whodunits, tales that can be described as morality tales and stories of luck and just deserts.

Eavesdropping on old scandals

There's something comforting about his story telling style it is so nostalgically old fashioned.

21 Nov 2017 9:21 PM

A still from Final Girl.

Fatal attraction

Tangled tales of young love, heartbreak, perversion, bitterness, sexual predators and a serial killer on the hunt.

14 Nov 2017 6:40 PM

The authors have been given the freedom to let their imaginations loose in whichever direction suits them.

A bookful of shivers from an assortment of authors

Shinie Anthony has gathered together a bookful of shivers from an assortment of authors.

7 Nov 2017 7:24 PM

Photographs by Bina Kak from the book

Wild and gorgeous

Bina Kak's book of photographs has the advantage of being a minister of tourism to its credit apart from Kak's dab hand...

31 Oct 2017 7:08 PM

The geek shall inherit the Earth

The geek shall inherit the Earth

In Origin:Number 5, Dan Brown captures today's conspiracy theory-ridden world, in which young people dominate through...

17 Oct 2017 7:09 PM

Quirky sleuth on hunt for serial killer in surreal thriller

Quirky sleuth on hunt for serial killer in surreal thriller

Arjun Chandra Kathpalia is 16 and has all the 16-year-old's tropes.

19 Sept 2017 9:11 PM

Fantasy, superpowers and the power of awakening

Fantasy, superpowers and the power of awakening

The three girls have all been genetically modified at some point so that eventually they can combat the alien powers...

12 Sept 2017 7:15 PM

Chitrita Banerji in her Bengali Cooking Seasons & Festivals covers Bengali food through the cycle of seasons and festivals linking the various flavours.

The taste of Bengal through different seasons and festivals

Not that any of these influences really changed the Bengali's main food focus, which was fish and vegetables.

5 Sept 2017 6:58 PM

The villains are those who have been sinned against beyond bearing.

Djinns, fire and the earthly world of human beings

Wahid is teen in Karachi who has the ability to see creatures in the night with eyes of fire

30 Aug 2017 3:45 PM