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Sultan By Wasim Akram and Gideon Haigh. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Sultan of swing reveals much in splendid memoir

Wasim Akram has chosen to tell a lot of what had seemed were matters considered never to be spoken about. He may not...

22 Jan 2023 1:22 AM IST

Cover photo of Roving Eyes: Love, Lust and Battles of Indian Royalty by S. Mahesh

Book Review | How love altered fate of kings, changed history

Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Illium Sweet Helen, make me immortal...

22 Jan 2023 1:21 AM IST

Cover photo of The Paradise of Food By Khalid Jawed

Book Review | Crime and punishment lurk as accidents in the kitchen...

Khalid Jawed's novel The Paradise of Food, translated from the Urdu by Baran Farooqi, is an imaginative tour de...

22 Jan 2023 1:18 AM IST

Cover photo of Lessons by Ian McEwan. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Ambitious epic of a drifter has few surprises

The inner life of a 1940s-born dilettante records filial emotions with fidelity but doesnâ€™t quite earn the scale on...

15 Jan 2023 12:34 AM IST

Cover photo of Lessons by Ian McEwan. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Ambitious epic of a drifter has few surprises

The inner life of a 1940s-born dilettante records filial emotions with fidelity but doesnâ€™t quite earn the scale on...

15 Jan 2023 12:31 AM IST

Cover photo of Eden: An Indian Exploration of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Lore by Devdutt Pattanaik

Book Review | A brief history of God

This evolving tapestry of stories linked across populations, continents and centuries is sometimes shocking but always...

15 Jan 2023 12:29 AM IST

Chip War: The Fight for the Worlds Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Decoding the chip wars and the leverage America has on...

The US knows it will be a world leader only as long as it maintains its edge in semiconductors.

15 Jan 2023 12:27 AM IST

Cover page of A Life in the Shadows

Book Review | Cosy memoir spells out why trust is the secret of...

Rajiv Gandhi had been wrestling with a defiant President Zail Singh, the Bofors controversy, and the Arun Nehru and V.P....

9 Jan 2023 9:46 AM IST

Cover photo of Unveiling Jazbaa: A History of Pakistan Womens Cricket by Aayush Puthran (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | In a league of their own

Most of us from the subcontinent are much too familiar with the smirk that accompanied any mention of women’s...

1 Jan 2023 12:29 AM IST

Cover page of Shadows of the Fragmented Moon

Book Review | A unique meditation on the metaphysical realities of...

Shubhrangshu Royâ€™s poetry is a testament to the identity crisis most individuals go through

27 Dec 2022 2:05 PM IST

The cover page of Netaji

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

Krishna Bose was an authority on Netajiâ€™s life and times and is the author of several books on him

3 Dec 2022 7:20 PM IST

The cover page of Who Will Bell the Cow? by Shruti Ganapatye

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