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Book Review | The heart of a dark matter

The author handles his thriller for young adults with practised ease, creating somewhat believable characters and an...

25 May 2024 12:17 PM IST

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Book Review | An Indian with an Arab’s inner reserves

Ebrahim Alkazi’s father Hamed Alkazi was an immigrant businessman in India. He came from Nejd in Saudi Arabia as a ...

25 May 2024 12:10 PM IST

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Has the IAS failed the nation? D. Subbarao shares his views

Can anyone compress a whole lifetime, especially a busy and eventful one, into a single book? Not really. But former...

18 May 2024 2:12 PM IST

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Book Review | Brilliance, empathy, simplicity qualities that define...

Subbarao, Subba as we call him, is my IAS batchmate. I still recall vividly the first time I met him on that mid-July...

18 May 2024 2:06 PM IST

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Book Review | If cooks could kill: The enigma of the ugly femme fatale

Gourmet cook and romancer of lonely old men, Manako Kajii, is convicted and locked in Tokyo Detention House on...

18 May 2024 11:01 AM IST

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A Mind-Boggling Murder Mystery

A murder mystery that will keep you guessing about the surprise twists, deceitful moves, and ulterior motives of its...

8 May 2024 12:55 AM IST

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Ambitions of an enigmatic king

Babur: The Chessboard King provides compelling insight into author's journey of researching and writing about Babur and...

3 May 2024 6:58 PM IST

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Book Review | India, essentially liberal? If not, should we celebrate...

Has the Liberal project of the 1990s suffered an irreversible decline? And should one lament its passing? The author...

27 April 2024 1:32 PM IST

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Book Review | Jingoistic war fantasy presented as speculative fiction

In the dystopian narrative of The Man Who Lost India, journalist Meghna Pant paints a grim picture of a future...

20 April 2024 12:41 PM IST

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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

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Book Review | ‘Muslim question’ sheer propaganda, there is no promised...

This provocatively titled book by a well-known journalist commentator — it may be unfair to call the author a “Muslim”...

13 April 2024 11:59 AM IST

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Book Review | Not long ago, democracy was almost snuffed out in Dhaka

Through the 2000s, Bangladesh was increasingly hostage to a chaotic whirlwind which saw Jihadists raising their ugly...

13 April 2024 11:49 AM IST