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Cover Image of Iqbal Chand Malhotras book Red Fear: The China Threat. (Twitter)

Book Review | Communists & ultranationalists: China, India fell out 6...

Having learnt the lessons of history better than India, China bided its time and positioned itself to humiliate India...

26 Dec 2021 1:34 AM IST

Cover image of Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussains work Nehru: The Debates that Defined India

Book Review | Account of Nehruâ€™s vision well compiled, deficiently...

In the Introduction, the author-compilers say Nehruâ€™s vaulting vision was in practice tempered by the -'more mundane...

26 Dec 2021 1:21 AM IST

Crafting a Future: Stories of Indian Textiles and Sustainable Practices by Archana Shah

Handmade in India

Celebrating the languishing art of hand-crafted textiles

23 Dec 2021 11:40 PM IST

Cover image of Missed Translations (Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me) by Sopan Deb.

Book Review |Raw, dark, tender exploration of ties that bind families...

The book is raw, dark, and, surprisingly tender

19 Dec 2021 9:45 AM IST

Cover image of Modis India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot.

Book review | The true colour of Modiâ€™s majoritarianism

Modiâ€™s pro-poor, anti-establishmentarian populism did not really translate into pro-poor policies or help the poor to...

19 Dec 2021 1:52 AM IST

The Ambassador and the Private Eye By Krishnan Srinivasan.

Book Review | Somali ex-diplomat, one-armed ex-cop team up in cerebral...

The novel plays out in a sequence of episodic chapters, each dealing with a separate case

18 Dec 2021 6:56 PM IST

Old News paper report

How China compromised its socialist ideals and cozied up to America in...

China was the first major power to make a move by openly warning India

13 Dec 2021 7:35 AM IST

When asked about challenges of choosing right expressions, he gave an example of his own, where the term cattle class, an expression he used unwittingly, invited the wrath of his party. DC Image

Tharoorâ€™s new book launched in Hyderabad

Tharoor said non-fiction was much easier to write

12 Dec 2021 2:11 AM IST

Indian Innings: The Journey of Indian Cricket from 1947.

Book Review | Spotlighting the finest Indian writing on cricket

It narrates the history of Indian cricket through earlier published reports of journalists who enjoyed a ringside view...

4 Dec 2021 8:54 PM IST

Parthibans Dream By Kalki Krishnamurthy.

Book Review | When Parthiban Kanavu morphs into Parthibanâ€™s Dream

No credit was given to the translators in the initial English renditions, an omission which was corrected in subsequent...

4 Dec 2021 8:48 PM IST

Name Place Animal Thing By Daribha Lyndem. (Amazon Photo)

Book Review | Memoiric fiction that paints vivid image of Shillong ...

There is no plot, but there are strong characters, most of whom are her family and friends

4 Dec 2021 8:42 PM IST

For India, China has been a problem for decades, even at a time when the world was fawning on that country for its growing economic clout and seemingly unending supplies of cheap goods. (Amazon Photo)

Book Review | Panchsheel and other delusions that wrongfooted our...

The ensuing conflict between the worldâ€™s two Asian powers seems destined to be a defining process for global...

4 Dec 2021 6:25 PM IST