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Book Review | None too comfortable revelations from a Congress Party...

Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s autobiography cannot fail to delight political hacks because it has some...

23 April 2023 12:52 AM IST

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Book Review | Culture wars (in a US varsity) and the price of clarity

If I'd journalled my feelings about Sonora Jha's novel, The Laughter, as I read it, I might perhaps have not...

23 April 2023 12:48 AM IST

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Book Review | Surrealistic pieces crafted inexactly

The stories in this collection of tend to be short: 22 of them fit into 184 pages, the two longest being 16 pages each....

23 April 2023 12:02 AM IST

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Book Review | Three little girls go looking for meaning

Twelve-year-old Kalpana goes missing — she was last spotted on her way to school. It was the village policeman who...

16 April 2023 12:48 AM IST

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Book Review | One young Indian maps changing nation, finds hope amid...

Memories are potent living things…” muses the author at one point as his protagonist, Shubhankar —...

16 April 2023 12:34 AM IST

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Book Review | How a family retainer' reinvented himself to be an...

Among the several books written on Indian Presidents, few have explored the President’s role in the government,...

9 April 2023 12:32 AM IST

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Book Review | Anti-colonial thinker who gave the lie to Islamic...

The life of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad is, regrettably, one of the lesser explored aspects of India’s anti-colonial...

9 April 2023 12:28 AM IST

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Book Review | Florid, lurid, turgid mountaineering fantasy

I am unable to slot The Forsaken Wilderness written by Vivaan Shah into any single category, as it straddles several...

9 April 2023 12:26 AM IST

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Book Review | Northeast a happening place... a bureaucrat explains why

First hand is everything for Ashish Kundra. The current transport commissioner for Delhi last march took a ride in a...

2 April 2023 12:53 AM IST

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Book Review | Oh, the joy of the book hunt, the thrill of wishful...

A Gentle Madness is Nicholas Basbanes’ wonderful account of the bibliophile’s eternal passion for books and...

2 April 2023 12:50 AM IST

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Book Review | A joyous romp that's thought-provoking

Varghese Mathai’s The Village Maestro & 100 Other Stories is a quick read, which might sound surprising, as a...

2 April 2023 12:46 AM IST

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Book Review | Four love stories between France and India

This spare volume of eight essays has five characters — Pierre Loti (1850-1953), André Malraux (1901-1976),...

26 March 2023 12:18 AM IST