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    The Last Color, by Vikas Khanna Bloomsbury, Rs 499Lifestyle
    High on idealism, but weak on plot, dialogues

    Keeping in mind the outcome of this landmark decision, The Last Color is structured to begin and end with the...

    29 July 2018 6:04 AM IST

    Requiem in Raga Janki by Neelum Saran Gour Penguin Random House, Rs 599.Lifestyle
    Relationship between a person & her art

    Fanning the hearth, or pounding at the pestle or beating the clothes on the stone they will try out what they have...

    8 July 2018 3:01 AM IST

    Night of happiness by Tabish Khair, Picador India, Rs 450Lifestyle
    Book review: A cat & mouse game of reward & punishment

    Tabish Khair takes the reader on a journey that forces him to confront big questions.

    20 May 2018 3:18 AM IST

    Restless Waters of the Ichhamati, by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay translated by Rimli Bhattacharya Rupa, Rs 495Lifestyle
    Book Review: Pastoral, prejudiced

    The first chapter of the novel is a near-perfect part of the whole: it strikes an opening note on themes that developed...

    27 April 2018 1:40 AM IST

    Undying Affinity by Sara Naveed Penguin Books, Rs 225.Lifestyle
    Traditional romance from another era

    Packed with tumultuous scenes and challenges, the plotline has their love affair run into stormy waters.

    5 April 2018 12:56 AM IST

    Undying Affinity by Sara Naveed, Penguin Books, Rs 225.Lifestyle
    Traditional romance from another era

    The boundaries between Zarish and Ahmar's personal and professional relationship dissolves and the result is some...

    1 April 2018 2:32 AM IST

    The Aryabhata Clan by Sudipto Das, Niyogi Books, Rs 595Lifestyle
    Cracking symbols the Dan Brown way

    The stakes are high a terrorist group is plotting to destroy India's most significant and recognisable symbol of Mughal...

    23 March 2018 2:49 AM IST

    We That Are Young by Preti Taneja Pages 545, Rs 599, Penguin Random House 2017.Lifestyle
    Book review: King Lear revisited ...in a business clan

    There are other versions of the story of this mythological pre-Roman Celtic King Leir of Britain in which good actually...

    19 Nov 2017 2:52 AM IST

    The Whole Shebang: Sticky Bits of Being a Woman, by Lalita Iyer Bloomsbury, Rs 350Lifestyle
    Book Review: What goes into becoming a real woman

    What I do know is that being a woman is a serious amount of admin. Iyer laments in the prologue.

    22 Oct 2017 7:26 AM IST

    The Matsya Curse, by Shweta Taneja HarperCollins, Rs 399Lifestyle
    Book Review 'The Matsya Curse: The underbelly of upside-down Delhi'

    The spooks have their own social structures, preoccupations, and are subject to governing laws.

    6 Aug 2017 6:06 AM IST

    My Not So Perfect Life, by Sophie Kinsella, Penguin Random House, Rs 599Lifestyle
    Book Review 'My Not So Perfect Life: Photoshopping a not-so-perfect...

    The story revolves around mid-twenties research assistant Katie Brenner.

    11 Jun 2017 3:59 AM IST

    Up Campus, Down Campus by Avijit Ghosh Speaking Tiger, Rs 299Lifestyle
    Book review: A paean to the diversity of JNU

    Anirban has much to learn and there's some inherent humour in his awkwardness around girls.

    25 Nov 2016 1:05 AM IST

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