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The Launch Party. (Image: AA)

Silly, badly hatched murder mystery on the moon

As the guests get to know each other on the journey

9 Sept 2023 6:16 PM IST

Cover photo of The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | An English garden opens window to healing

Odd though it may seem, this sadness that you don't expect to find in a feel-good book is what makes it work so well.

13 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Cover photo of Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | A literary thriller parsing corruption and class

Age of Vice is about Ajay, a dalit from an Uttar Pradesh village who is trafficked at the age of eight to work as a...

30 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

The entire book is about secrets. Secrets held by Mallika, the protagonist. Secrets held by Mallikas mother, Mallikas aunt, Mallikas neighbours and Mallikas friends all the main characters. If I were to describe Fear and Lovely the way I want to, you would hear a robotic voice uttering spoiler alert at the start of almost every paragraph.

Book review | Slow & lovely dive into a middle class Indian girl's...

The entire book is about secrets. Secrets held by Mallika, the protagonist

3 July 2023 1:04 AM IST

Cover photo of Soft Animal by Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Lockdown and the homemaker blues

Well written enough that I got through it without wanting to bang my head against a wall.

11 Jun 2023 12:18 AM IST

Cover photo of The Laughter by Sonora Jha. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Culture wars (in a US varsity) and the price of clarity

10 days after I closed the book, I still feel as though it ran me over with a lorry.

23 April 2023 12:47 AM IST

Cover photo of Gastronama: The Indian Guide to Eating Right by Kalpish Ratna. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Listen to your body, not your brain, when it comes to...

Review of 'Gastronama: The Indian Guide to Eating Right' by Kalpish Ratna.

26 March 2023 12:16 AM IST

Its a series of essays about Sara Rais 1960s. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | Premchand's grandchild curates her memories

Only when I had the book in my hands did I realise that Sara Rai is the granddaughter of that great writer in Hindi,...

4 March 2023 10:49 PM IST

Cover page of Happy Endings

Book Review | Desi Lesbian romance hopes to make a point

The romance novel about star-crossed lovers Krish and Mahi has not one, not two, but three happy endings

9 Jan 2023 10:12 AM IST

The cover page of The Anglo-Indians: A Portrait of a Community

Book Review | How Anglo-Indians transformed India

The book covers much more than the things I've described, of course. It is as comprehensive as any book about any...

4 Dec 2022 8:09 AM IST

Cover Photo of Rethink Ageing: Lessons in Ageing from the Older and Bolder Generation by Reshmi Chakraborty and Nidhi Chawla (Photo: By arrangement)

Book Review | Who's afraid of growing old?

The book, strangely, given my pessimism about ageing, made me smile

20 Nov 2022 1:35 AM IST

Patil is an idealist, a person who quit a well-paying information technology job to help save the world but her ideas of the things that constitute field research and conservation are similar to the ideas of bureaucrats and men with moustaches only in the most superficial way. DC Image

Book Review | Laugh and also ponder what patriarchy might do next

The book is a delightful account by a beleaguered researcher to investigate impact of government's agro-forestry policy...

9 May 2021 9:50 AM IST