Aloke Roy Chowdhury, Deccan Chronicle

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A discerning but prolific reader, one of India�??s most respected publishers, who understands the business of books, loves clever cinema and reads crime fiction compulsively. Email him at archome40@gmail.com.

Books and Art

Book Review | Crisp whodunits, cute investigators

The first volume is largely a selection of stories of private investigators “following the whodunit template” as...

13 July 2024 4:59 PM IST

Lifestyle

Book Review | Magical and unfinished, ‘lost’ novel leaves mysteries...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of the world’s greatest story tellers, died in 2014. Ten years after his death his children...

12 May 2024 12:56 PM IST

Books and Art

Book Review | Editor’s honesty forges unlikely friendship in world of...

Ramachandra Guha is a versatile writer. He has received international recognition for his writings on environmental...

17 March 2024 11:42 AM IST

Lifestyle

Book Review | Writer’s muse parses a Victorian court drama

Zadie Smith’s novel encompasses the Tichborne case but its scope is far wider. Our starting point is the household of...

25 Feb 2024 12:17 PM IST

$Book Review | Irish Dystopia and a Mother\s Survival Fight$ Lifestyle

Book Review | Irish Dystopia and a Mother-'s Survival Fight

It is a serious work of fiction written in a style which demands the reader's focus

15 Oct 2023 2:34 AM IST

Lifestyle

Unpacking the modern family, its ambitions and uncertainties

A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness is his second literary endeavour

17 Sept 2023 12:00 AM IST

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Book Review | A family's quest amid shifting sands of identity

Deep in the winter of 1857, a group of about 200 sepoys belonging to the 34th Native Infantry took up arms against...

20 Aug 2023 12:07 AM IST