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Unprecedented The Masters And Me By Tiger Woods with Lorne Rubenstein Sphere, pp. 256, Rs 449

Book review: A foray into a golfer's mind

20 years ago, Tiger Woods burst on a scene with a recordbreaking perofrmance that ignited a career that changed the face...

14 April 2017 2:12 AM IST

Pakistan: Courting the Abyss by Tilak Devasher HarperCollins, Rs 599

Book review: Jinnah's Pakistan failed him and how

This book ought to be compulsory reading for those who take an interest in Pakistan.

2 April 2017 2:04 AM IST

Turtles All The Way Down by John Green, Penguin UK, Rs 350.

Close-to-life characters hold the book

Aza restarts her friendship with Davis with an ulterior motive, but they become good friends soon enough. Perhaps they...

17 Dec 2017 1:08 AM IST

Fifty films that changed Bollywood by Shubhra Gupta, HarperCollins, Rs 219.

Bollywood films and body images

The Fat is equal to Funny equation predates cinema: films just amplified the quality and the feeling.

17 Dec 2017 1:09 AM IST

Lost in Time: Ghatotkacha and the Game of Illusions by Namita Gokhale, Penguin Random, House India Rs 499.

Ghatotkacha and the magic of inner courage

The book is for 11-14 year olds, but I'm sure even their mothers will love reading it.

17 Dec 2017 1:07 AM IST

Its All in the Planets by Preeti Shenoy Westland, Rs 225

Book review: Our lives, our stars

The book sends out the message that our lives are pre-ordained, that we are all here to fulfil certain karmic...

26 Feb 2017 1:40 AM IST

Hit for a Six by Payal Dhar, Rupa, Rs 195

Nail-biting mystery for young readers

As the author says, Hit For A Six is for six to 16-year-olds; for new readers as well as the bookworms. The plot is good...

24 Dec 2017 1:08 AM IST

Through The Eyes of a Cinematographer by Devapriya Sanyal, HarperCollins, Rs 299

A tribute to the art of a cinematographer

It is more like a little primer for lay readers rather than an exhaustive probe into the intricate craft of...

24 Dec 2017 1:05 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers the Independence Day speech on August 15 in New Delhi.

Book review: Decoding Modi's feats and incentives

This book is about Mr Modi and the inclusive transformation he has wrought in governing India.

30 Jun 2017 12:30 AM IST

Mohanaswamy by Vasudhendra, translated by Rashmi Terdal HarperCollins, Rs 399

Book review: To be gay and sad in small-town India

The story Bed Bug is about his friend Shankar Gowda, a transsexual treated like dirt by the same heterosexual men.

5 Feb 2017 12:55 AM IST

Just the way a mother slips in some healthy vegetables in the tiffin of her child, Pattanaik sprinkles the lesson of Dharma (a tough topic to teach children) throughout the book for kids.

Explaining dharma to young children

Pattanaik deals with the facts with gentle brush strokes, lending the book a smooth flow.

3 Dec 2017 1:05 AM IST

The Flavour of Spice is a book focused on the spices used most often in Indian cooking, tracing their history as far back as possible, and investigating their mysteries deeply.

A book born out of curiosity over spices

Reshii eventually solved the kalpasi mystery, but it is her descriptions of situations like this that make her book so...

3 Dec 2017 1:02 AM IST