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Indian Innings: The Journey of Indian Cricket from 1947.

Book Review | Spotlighting the finest Indian writing on cricket

It narrates the history of Indian cricket through earlier published reports of journalists who enjoyed a ringside view...

4 Dec 2021 9:03 PM IST

Parthibans Dream By Kalki Krishnamurthy.

Book Review | When Parthiban Kanavu morphs into Parthiban's Dream

No credit was given to the translators in the initial English renditions, an omission which was corrected in subsequent...

4 Dec 2021 9:00 PM IST

Name Place Animal Thing By Daribha Lyndem. (Amazon Photo)

Book Review | Memoiric fiction that paints vivid image of Shillong ...

There is no plot, but there are strong characters, most of whom are her family and friends

4 Dec 2021 8:58 PM IST

For India, China has been a problem for decades, even at a time when the world was fawning on that country for its growing economic clout and seemingly unending supplies of cheap goods. (Amazon Photo)

Book Review | Panchsheel and other delusions that wrongfooted our...

The ensuing conflict between the world's two Asian powers seems destined to be a defining process for global geopolitics

4 Dec 2021 8:56 PM IST

Cover page of The Meeting of Minds: A Bridging Initiative by Khwaja Iftikhar Ahmed. (Twitter)

Muslims are geographical Hindus'

For dialogue to succeed between Muslims and RSS-oriented Hindus, it is imperative for both sides to admit that there...

18 July 2021 1:41 AM IST

Cover page of Home in The World; A Memoir by Amartya Sen. (Twitter)

Congruity, not clash, of civilisations is at root of Sen's academic...

He found distinguished Cambridge economists less concerned about issues like inequality, poverty and exploitation

18 July 2021 1:19 AM IST

Cover page of Anthropocene by Sudeep Sen. (Twitter)

A melange of insights that elate and sadden

Sen uses his voice to bring home every atrocity we have wrought on this planet, on ourselves and our lives

18 July 2021 2:43 AM IST

Cover page of The Oracle of Karuthupuzha by Manu Bhattathiri. (Twitter)

The humour and romance of being in Karuthupuzha

The Oracle of Karuthupuzha has all the elements to make it the perfect book of fiction to escape' into during a pandemic

18 July 2021 1:49 AM IST

Cover photo of Red Fort: Remembering the Magnificent Mughals by Debasish Das. (Twitter)

Book Review | Resurrecting, in mind's eye, a living Red Fort

While much of the book and its many short sections tend to be somewhat disjointed and faltering, as we approach the end,...

4 July 2021 3:25 AM IST

Book Review | Free speech, fake news & the Indian press

Book Review | Free speech, fake news & the Indian press

For the sake of authenticity, the author, a newspaper industry veteran, restricts his scrutiny to the print media

4 July 2021 3:31 AM IST

Cover Page of One Love, and the Many Lives of Osip B by C.P. Surendran . (Twitter)

Book Review | Trippy reverie on Stalinism, sexism, Delhi and death of...

It is also an account of how group rights come to impinge on individual freedoms

29 Aug 2021 1:08 AM IST

Cover Page of China Room by Sunjeev Sahota. (Twitter)

Book Review | When memory refracts into gripping fiction

It is the story of a 15-year-old bride in 1929 and her 18-year-old great grandson

29 Aug 2021 1:43 AM IST