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The Braided River: A Journey along the Brahmaputra By Samrat Choudhury. (Amazon Photo)

Chronicle of a great river, its peoples, conflicts and myriad stories

Is The Braided River' a travelogue, a personal pilgrimage, a historical search for origins and beginnings or a political...

22 Jan 2022 6:47 PM IST

A Red-necked Green Bird By Ambai. (Amazon Photo)

A telling account of how real women feel, imperfectly rendered in...

The slim volume is valuable in that it draws readers into the world of Tamil writing of which they would otherwise be...

22 Jan 2022 6:45 PM IST

Bangladesh War: Report from Ground Zero By Manash Ghosh. (Amazon Photo)

A ringside view of how a new nation was born amid flames

It is not always that a journalist gets a chance to be part of history in the making

22 Jan 2022 6:43 PM IST

Madam Prime Minister By Seema Goswami. (Amazon)

Unputdownable political thriller that is funny & all too familiar

Madam Prime Minister is a racy novel with political games, scandals, and a bit of romance thrown in

9 Jan 2022 1:36 AM IST

Making India Great Again: Learning from Our History By Meeta and Rajivlochan. (Amazon)

Did careless governance plus bad work ethic cause India's economic...

The opening pages of the book argue that India was always rich. Certainly it was

9 Jan 2022 1:34 AM IST

I Adore Jai The Rediscovery of M.L. Jaisimha by Jayanthi Jaisimha. (Amazon)

Tales of The Lion': How Jaisimha thrilled, spilled and swashbuckled

Our cricketing icons of that period turned out in sparkling whites for India, not for pelf or power but for the sheer...

9 Jan 2022 1:32 AM IST

Crafting a Future: Stories of Indian Textiles and Sustainable Practices By Archana Shah. (Amazon)

Book review | Scholarly tribute to our artisans and their textiles

The section on fashion links the relevance of the hand crafted tradition to environmental concerns and sustainability

2 Jan 2022 11:50 AM IST

over image of Robert Jordans book The Eye of the World: Wheel of Time.

Book Review | Robert Jordan's pen is mightier than camera

Hachette India republished the book to coincide with streaming of the original series The Wheel of Time on Prime Video

2 Jan 2022 2:45 AM IST

Cover Image of Rupa and Gautam Gupts book Forgotten Civilisations: The Rediscovery of Indias Lost History. (Twitter)

Book Review | Raising a toast to 15 British men who parted veil of...

The first British who came to rule India were men of the Enlightenment with an intense curiosity

2 Jan 2022 2:29 AM IST

Cover Image of Homi J. Bhabha: A Renaissance Man among Scientists by Biman Nath.

An authentic biography of a scientific pioneer

Written by Biman Nath, the book aims to popularise science and the history science amongst lay readers

27 Feb 2022 3:58 AM IST

Cover Image of the book The Middle Finger by Saikat Majumdar.

Book Review | Poetry, privilege and a teacher's duties

This book gives you a good look at the world of global academia, and how different cultures merge seamlessly in the...

27 Feb 2022 3:27 AM IST

Cover Image of the book Why They Killed Gandhi by Ashok Kumar Pandey.

Book Review | Clear-eyed perspective on Mahatma's assassination

The first thing that strikes you about this book is its no-nonsense writing

27 Feb 2022 2:45 AM IST