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Book Review | Portrait of an open wound

Book Review | Portrait of an open wound

In many ways, Sharankumar Limbale’s novel Sanatan is a history of the present, examining as it does the fate of several...

21 Dec 2024 1:00 PM IST

Book Review | A masterful, minute study in intimacy

Book Review | A masterful, minute study in intimacy

Themes of loss, love and history converge, served alongside an extended meditation on the image and its relationship to...

23 Nov 2024 11:32 AM IST

Book Review | Spare, brutal, rural Maharashtrian noir

Book Review | Spare, brutal, rural Maharashtrian noir

It has proven particularly difficult to write fiction in English about the present. Indeed, arguably the best writing ...

26 Oct 2024 11:58 AM IST

Book Review | An uncle’s-eye view of modern India

Book Review | An uncle’s-eye view of modern India

A man ties a woman to a chair and runs a live auction where figures from her past bid money to decide her fate

21 Sept 2024 1:12 PM IST

Book Review | Whither identity without politics?

Book Review | Whither identity without politics?

“While reading a headline about Kashmir a few years ago,” writes Priyanka Mattoo in her new memoir, “I realised how...

17 Aug 2024 12:47 PM IST

Book Review | Hiding the heartbreak in Laxmi Panda’s heroic life

Book Review | Hiding the heartbreak in Laxmi Panda’s heroic life

Laxmi Rath joined the INA as one of its youngest members at 14 years, and served as a spy alongside a host of...

20 July 2024 3:54 PM IST