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Cover Image of Namita Gokhales book The Blind Matriarch.

Book Review | Pandemic, and traumas past: Finding a gentler way...

Reading Namita Gokhale's latest book The Blind Matriarch is an essential, gentle remembering

23 Oct 2021 8:42 PM GMT

Cover Image of Gaurie Dwivedis How Will the World Counter China?.

Book Review | Dragon rising: How India can help world

The well-researched book takes a bird's eye view of the challenges that a rising and basically belligerent China...

23 Oct 2021 9:29 PM GMT

Every chapter of the book tells an equally sordid tale of a young life destroyed by police and other government security agencies. (DC Image)

Book Review | Cut down in their prime and living with the tag of...

Overall, the book compiles the ordeals of 16 such young men

23 Oct 2021 9:13 PM GMT

John Lang: Wanderer of Hindoostan, Slanderer in Hindoostanee, Lawyer for the Ranee By Amit Ranjan. (Amazon Photo)

Book Review | Discovering the Oz author who was lawyer for Rani of...

In his short life of 48 years, John Lang produced 23 novels, one travelogue, some plays and five volumes of poetry

20 Nov 2021 2:27 PM GMT

Contested Lands: India, China and the Boundary Dispute By Maroof Raza. (Amazon photo)

Book Review | Crouching Elephant, Hidden Dragon: This history is not...

The resulting shortcomings in dealing with the Chinese have cost India dearly in terms of its security and progress

20 Nov 2021 2:25 PM GMT

Karunanidhi: A Life By A.S. Panneerselvan. (Amazon Photo)

Book Review | Truths about M. Karunanidhi & perspectives on Tamil...

One of the key takeaways in the book is the articulation of Karunanidhi's position vis-a-vis the Sri Lankan Tamil issue

20 Nov 2021 2:22 PM GMT

Cover Image of Iqbal Chand Malhotras book Red Fear: The China Threat. (Twitter)

Book Review | Communists & ultranationalists: China, India fell out 6...

Having learnt the lessons of history better than India, China bided its time and positioned itself to humiliate India...

25 Dec 2021 8:08 PM GMT

Cover Image od Maurice Leblancs book Arsene Lupin Gentleman Burglar (Twitter)

Book Review | Arsene Lupin versus Sherlock Holmes

The history of Lupin has an uncanny similarity with that of Sherlock Holmes in the sense the character assumed a much...

25 Dec 2021 8:16 PM GMT

Cover image of Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussains work Nehru: The Debates that Defined India

Book Review | Account of Nehru's vision well compiled, deficiently...

In the Introduction, the author-compilers say Nehru's vaulting vision was in practice tempered by the 'more mundane...

25 Dec 2021 7:51 PM GMT

Cover image of Missed Translations (Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me) by Sopan Deb.

Book Review | Raw, dark, tender exploration of ties that bind families...

The book is raw, dark, and, surprisingly tender

18 Dec 2021 9:01 PM GMT

Cover image of Modis India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot.

Book review | The true colour of Modi's majoritarianism

Modi's pro-poor, anti-establishmentarian populism did not really translate into pro-poor policies or help the poor to...

18 Dec 2021 8:21 PM GMT

The Ambassador and the Private Eye By Krishnan Srinivasan.

Book Review | Somali ex-diplomat, one-armed ex-cop team up in cerebral...

The novel plays out in a sequence of episodic chapters, each dealing with a separate case

18 Dec 2021 1:28 PM GMT