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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

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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

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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

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Modi: The man who changed Indiaâ€™s politics

The rise of Narendra Damodardas Modi perhaps is an epochal moment in Indian politics. One can safely say that...

21 Aug 2022 12:10 AM IST

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Mending the loss of innocence with hard-won wisdom

Arjun Raj Gaind’s The Anatomy of Loss is the story of an eight-year-old boy and perhaps several like him for whom...

21 Aug 2022 12:05 AM IST

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Obscurantism aside, time for India to seize the narrative

In the olden days, rulers would build magnificent palaces and temples to distinguish their rule not so much because they...

21 Aug 2022 12:00 AM IST

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Yusuf of Peshawar who spotted talent, changed lives...

One rainy Bengaluru evening my editor emailed me requesting a review of the book, Dilip Kumar: In The Shadow of a...

14 Aug 2022 12:02 AM IST

Riding the De(mon)

Deciphering the DE(MON) effect

CA-turned-author Murali Raghavan whips up a financial thriller in the backdrop of demonetization and rides high on the...

10 Aug 2022 12:35 AM IST

Book Review | Wordy but under-translated tome rewards in retrospect

Book Review | Wordy but under-translated tome rewards in retrospect

What does one say about a celebrated novel? The translated tome of which is twice the size of the Hindi book? Which is...

31 July 2022 1:16 AM IST

Book Review | A laugh riot that smells like teen spirit!

Book Review | A laugh riot that smells like teen spirit!

All hell breaks loose in a middle class household in Trivandrum when, as the title says, ‘teen couple have fun...

31 July 2022 1:11 AM IST

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Book Excerpt: How George Fernandes was caught, jailed and humiliated

Rummaging through his suitcase, they found a photo identity card of George Fernandes, president of the AIRF

23 July 2022 11:02 PM IST

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Naval playing field: How post-Partition Amritsar nurtured an elegant...

If the time and place played a significant role in the making of Naval, one canâ€™t discount the influence of her rich...

23 July 2022 10:30 PM IST