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Detracing Bihar’s 2 millenia-long literary legacy

Bihar’s literary legacy is more than two thousand five years old. From religious texts and secular poetry in Pali...

20 Dec 2022 6:19 PM IST

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Book Review | Not your typical desi-goes-to-America novel

Hira isn’t in pursuit of the American dream, she just wants to get away from the small-mindedness of Pakistan....

17 Dec 2022 1:06 PM IST

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Book Review | A treat for literary fiction lovers set in...

Set aside time to properly savour this deeply moving story, which, like its chief protagonist, is simple in its...

17 Dec 2022 12:56 PM IST

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Book Review | Folk heroes take precedence over icons, wording of title...

The author says in his introduction that the genesis of this book lay in a meeting with a friend of his, a fellow-writer...

11 Dec 2022 1:33 AM IST

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Book Review | Hefty and immersive, whydunit leaves questions in wake

My eyes goggled at the size of the book. At 576 pages, Lady Joker by Kaoru Takamura is a big book and it is just the...

11 Dec 2022 1:28 AM IST

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Book Review | A Norwegian master on the heat of the moment

At the heart of Jo Nesbo’s intriguing, somewhat self-reflexive story, ‘Odd’, is the novelist Odd...

11 Dec 2022 1:24 AM IST

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Penguin and Jaipur Literature Festival announce mentorship for...

NEW DELHI: Penguin Random House India, a leading publishing house in India that marks its 35th year in India, plans to...

10 Dec 2022 12:28 AM IST

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Book Review | Bose revisited: Whose Netaji is he anyway?

Krishna Bose was an authority on Netaji’s life and times and is the author of several books on him

3 Dec 2022 7:20 PM IST

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Book Review | How Anglo-Indians transformed India

The book covers much more than the things I’ve described, of course. It is as comprehensive as any book about any...

3 Dec 2022 7:14 PM IST

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Book Review | Understanding the beef over cow politics

The author laments that the National Crime Records Bureau has nothing on lynching, cow slaughter crimes and crimes...

3 Dec 2022 7:11 PM IST

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Book on Chipko movement wins Kamaladevi Prize

NEW DELHI: Historian Shekhar Pathak’s The Chipko Movement: A People’s History has won this...

2 Dec 2022 6:24 PM IST

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Book Review | People aren’t too different, in Mumbai or in U.S.

Border Less is a novel, or rather, a set of short stories that stand perfectly well on their own, but are actually...

27 Nov 2022 1:39 AM IST