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Book Review | A lesser-known Independence struggle

Seven years before Krishna Menon, India’s defence at the time, advised Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to...

5 Oct 2024 12:38 PM IST

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Book Review | Love, loss and the impact of childhood in Oman

Jokha Alharthi is a writer of impeccable style, design and vulnerability, and her novel Celestial Bodies,...

5 Oct 2024 12:36 PM IST

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Book Review | How multinational was port of Kochi!

Journalist M.K. Das has authored this unique volume of essays tracking the evolution of Kerala's financial...

5 Oct 2024 12:18 PM IST

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Book Review | Rewriting the Aunty Code in New India

If you were to judge Anuradha Marwah’s Aunties of Vasant Kunj by its cover the way I did, you’d be sadly...

28 Sept 2024 12:52 PM IST

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Book Review | How DMK shed its fiery core

Beginning as the book does with a panegyric ode to a departed DMK leader, the fear set in that the tome...

28 Sept 2024 12:50 PM IST

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Book Review | Valour unlimited from the battlefields of 1965

The first thing the careful reader might notice about this book is that the opening section offers some...

28 Sept 2024 12:46 PM IST

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Book Review | Whither identity without politics?

“While reading a headline about Kashmir a few years ago,” writes Priyanka Mattoo in her new memoir, “I...

17 Aug 2024 12:48 PM IST

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Book Review | The 15 women who drafted the Indian Constitution

In 1946, 15 remarkable women became part of the Constituent Assembly of 299 to adequately represent the...

17 Aug 2024 12:14 PM IST

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Book Review | Twisted love before fall of Berlin Wall

“Will you come to my funeral?” is an opening line that quite effectively foreshadows what is to follow — a grim...

10 Aug 2024 12:56 PM IST

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Book Review | Lessons on how to navigate the Indian reality

Magsaysay Award-winning social activist Aruna Roy's memoir is a seismic jolt to the complacent conscience. She...

10 Aug 2024 12:34 PM IST

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Book Review | When India let Tibet down

Time and again history has shown that great powers tend to shape the world according to their...

10 Aug 2024 12:29 PM IST

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Book Review | As Gaza bleeds, a memoir!

This compelling book is a composite of “memoir with a deeply historical narrative”. It presents both a fascinating...

3 Aug 2024 11:59 AM IST