book review 2024
Book Review | The importance of being an earnestly-radicalised, young Muslim
We see two sides of Mahmud throughout the book
Book Review | Anatomy of an Indian self-help guide
Chetan Bhagat knows his audience well and has catered to their needs quite flawlessly for over a decade now
Book Review | Nayanima’s testimony of Kabul’s fall has a few what-ifs, some caveats
Two days before Kabul fell to the Taliban the journalist proposed to write a despatch predicting its imminent takeover
Book Review | An old woman’s odd quest to find her co-wives
Antony’s prose is so lyrical that it can be set to music
Exactly how do we bring in selfless leaders, redraft democracy?
In effect, what democracy and democratic institutions require is periodic review, reflection, audit and redesign
Book Review | At waltz of Dragon, Elephant, Lion, Eagle, Nehru’s prescience
On the whole, the book offers us a reminder that the present may be equally difficult to weather as the storms over China gather afresh
Book Review | Scientist plays God in laboured science fiction
The writing is patchy: It’s good most of the way, though often self-indulgent, sometimes turgid, and occasionally just plain wretched
Book Review | Sympathetic detective, lame whodunit
It’s only towards the fag end of the book that the author remembers he promised us a serial killer, and gets his act together
Book review | A writer’s diary is a repository of ideas
One thread that runs through Kumar’s Yellow Book is the pandemic
Book review | Edge-of-seat thriller on an Indo-Pak showdown
Written in a simple style, with some Urdu sprinkled here and there, makes the book a good read