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    Book Review | A Gujarat riot survivor’s sharp-eyed memoirBooks and Art
    Book Review | A Gujarat riot survivor’s sharp-eyed memoir

    The Lucky Ones is heartbreaking and compassionate, told in the voice of a survivor rather than a victim

    23 Nov 2024 11:11 AM IST

    Book Review | Overwrought and under-imaginedBooks and Art
    Book Review | Overwrought and under-imagined

    He’s had sex but has never had intimacy and doesn’t expect he ever will

    2 Nov 2024 6:19 PM IST

    Book Review | Gut-wrenching novel on lives, Yazidi legacyBooks and Art
    Book Review | Gut-wrenching novel on lives, Yazidi legacy

    Last Sunday — decades after I finished college — I remembered a lecture that introduced a piece of literary jargon to my...

    14 Sept 2024 5:12 PM IST

    Book Review | Can Japan’s young write their own story?Books and Art
    Book Review | Can Japan’s young write their own story?

    Some five decades of dedicated reading have led me to put my faith in a certain axiom associated with books: No...

    24 Aug 2024 1:30 PM IST

    Book Review | Renewal or break? A Partition memoirBooks and Art
    Book Review | Renewal or break? A Partition memoir

    As a member of a Partition-affected family, I have always had a strong attraction to stories about that time in...

    20 July 2024 3:45 PM IST

    Book Review | How to secretly woo your bestie!Books and Art
    Book Review | How to secretly woo your bestie!

    For such a short book, Saikat Majumdar's The Remains of the Body packs a massive punch. It took me about 10 days to...

    29 Jun 2024 12:37 PM IST

    Book Review | Whimsical mindbenders that disturb and delightBooks and Art
    Book Review | Whimsical mindbenders that disturb and delight

    When I started reading Biopeculiar: Stories of an Uncertain World by Gigi Ganguly, I knew I couldn’t be objective...

    1 Jun 2024 12:55 PM IST

    Book Review | Fashionista-influencer discovers Goa’s susegadBooks and Art
    Book Review | Fashionista-influencer discovers Goa’s susegad

    For a book that turned out to be quite a mood lifter, Bina Nayak’s Goagr@m engendered a huge amount of angst in my...

    27 April 2024 1:18 PM IST

    Book Review | Tipu’s carpenter and his European questBooks and Art
    Book Review | Tipu’s carpenter and his European quest

    After I read the first four parts of Tania James's historical novel Loot, I just sat there, shivering with delight...

    13 April 2024 12:43 PM IST

    Book Review | Retro Indian heroine ticks off her milestonesBooks and Art
    Book Review | Retro Indian heroine ticks off her milestones

    Years ago, I read Nayantara Sahgal’s marvellous Prison and Chocolate Cake, a memoir about growing up in the Nehru family...

    10 Feb 2024 11:42 AM IST

    Cover page of Guilt Trip and Other StoriesLifestyle
    Book Review | Women's doubts and decisions, gracefully deciphered

    I was roughly halfway through Guilt Trip and Other Stories, a collection of tales by Lakshmi Kannan mainly about...

    13 Jan 2024 12:45 PM IST

    This is why I was surprised to learn from the introduction of the book that Bahadur Shah of Gujarat is something of a lost king. Overlooked by history, hidden in the crevices of better-known peoples stories, and often, when mentioned at all, designated as something of a villain. By ArrangementLifestyle
    Book Review | Colossus from the lost pages of India's chequered...

    As the son and grandson of sultans, Bahadur Shah is ambitious

    23 Dec 2023 3:09 PM IST

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