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Shuma Raha
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The reviewer is a journalist and author
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    Book Review | Of Feluda, dry days': A whimsical look, but serious too

    Though the slim volume is thick with cultural cross-references, it is the pop culture stardust of Bengal, Hazra's...

    15 Jun 2024 7:29 AM

    The attack happened at a particularly happy time for Rushdie. He was in love he had married the poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths the previous year (he is cloyingly admiring when he writes about his current wife) and he was awaiting the release of his latest novel, Victory City. By ArrangementBooks
    Book Review | Knife-edge of an artist's vision cuts through fear and...

    Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder is not only Rushdie's account of that violent act it is also his way of ...

    4 May 2024 7:23 AM

    Cover photo of The Portrait of a Secret by Tarun Mehrishi. (Photo by arrangement)Books
    Book Review | Too many frivolous details spoil a cleverly...

    Mehrishi does a good job of bringing all the strands of the story together at the end, and throws in a bonus surprise as...

    6 May 2023 7:30 PM

    Cover photo of Victory City by Salman Rushdie. (Photo by arrangement)Books
    Book Review | Allegory for a civilisation in crisis an ode to undying...

    Despite its serious subtexts, however, Victory City is, first and foremost, a joyous outpouring of the author's bravura...

    25 Feb 2023 8:07 PM

    Book Review | Crime and punishment lurk as accidents in the kitchen cornerBooks
    Book Review | Crime and punishment lurk as accidents in the kitchen...

    Book Review of 'The Paradise of Food' by Khalid Jawed

    21 Jan 2023 7:57 PM

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    Book Review | Love tangles with family as Great Calcutta Killings rage

    Book Review of 'Independence' by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

    26 Nov 2022 8:14 PM

    Cover photo of C: A Novel by Anupama Raju (Photo by arrangement)Books
    Book Review | An unconventional debut that still misses the plot

    Review of 'C: A Novel' by Anupama Raju

    8 Oct 2022 7:48 PM

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