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Cover photo of Sanjeev Kumar: The Actor We All Loved By Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta and Uday Jariwala (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | Sanjeev Kumarâ€™s life ably reconstructed

Every generation needs or rather has its own heroes. However thespian someone might be, her or his footprints are...

18 Sept 2022 1:30 AM IST

Cover photo of The Life and Times of George Fernandes By Rahul Ramagundam (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | The success and sacrifice of Indiaâ€™s last political...

It will be tempting for many to read this biography of George Fernandes without noticing the author’s caveats...

18 Sept 2022 1:23 AM IST

Cover photo of Newlyweds by Mansi Choksi. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Excerpt | When nostalgia overtakes love and rebellion gives way...

For most of my mother’s life, she has lived in the house she was born in. It is a roomy apartment on the second fl...

18 Sept 2022 1:05 AM IST

Cover page of The Magicians of Mazda By Ashwin Sanghi. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | Mazda & the allure of Persian mythology...

The story starts with a thief breaking into the British museum to steal the Cyrus Cylinder, a relic of Cyrus the Great...

11 Sept 2022 1:49 AM IST

Cover page of In Search of the Pitcher of Nectar By Samaresh Basu. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Excerpt | Some seek song, others salvation, still others wealth...

Babuji, on hearing this song, Rukmini came out fearlessly and worshipped Raghunandan by offering water, flower and...

11 Sept 2022 1:32 AM IST

Cover page of The Last War By Pravin Sawhney. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | Letâ€™s make peace with China and Pak, cozy up to Russia

Excerpt from The Last War By Pravin Sawhney

11 Sept 2022 1:10 AM IST

Cover page of The Inconceivable Idea of the Sun by Anil Menon. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | A cleverly wound string of quirky-witty mindbenders

It’s quirky, but then, speculative fiction, or spec-fic, tends to be so: it’s in the nature of the beast....

4 Sept 2022 2:55 AM IST

Cover page of Breaking Free by Vaasanthi. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | Love, and the dilemmas of devadasi life

The novel is exquisitely multi-layered in its themes — devadasi, freedom, love, patriarchy, women —peeling...

4 Sept 2022 2:46 AM IST

Cover page of Hul! Hul! by Peter Stanley. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Exceprt | Military lens from Raj justifies relook at the Santhal...

The Santal rebellion has been explained virtually from the moment it began in July 1855. An anonymous article in the...

4 Sept 2022 2:38 AM IST

Cover page of Sojourn. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | A Bengali professor unscrambles the riddle of Berlin

Sojourn is a sketchy sort of travelogue — not just of a place but the mind. The narrator, a visiting professor at...

28 Aug 2022 12:06 AM IST

Cover page of The Problem with Everything: My Journey through the New Culture Wars. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | Welcome to the political compassâ€™ third dimension

Consider the following questions. Is military action that defies international law sometimes justified? Should mothers...

28 Aug 2022 12:02 AM IST

Cover page of Dadamoni: The Life and Times of Ashok Kumar. (Photo By Arrangement)

Book Review | First among the equals of Old Bollywoodâ€™s heroes

Ashok Kumar is one of the four pillars of old Hindi or Hindustani cinema, that is, from the mid-1930s to the 1970s. The...

28 Aug 2022 12:00 AM IST