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Books | The Asian Age
Tipu’s carpenter and his European quest
The book takes reader into another era, complete with sights, sounds, smells and emotions
14 Apr 2024 9:01 PM
‘Muslim question’ sheer propaganda, there is no promised land
'The book is worthy of reflection by all modern Indians, the country’s civil society as a whole'
14 Apr 2024 8:57 PM
Not long ago, democracy was almost snuffed out in Dhaka
The book traces the history of Bengal from ancient times to the birth and progress of Bangladesh
14 Apr 2024 8:49 PM
Mita Kapur: I followed my instincts
It is as literary director for the prestigious JCB Prize for Literature that Mita has built herself a lasting legacy
13 Apr 2024 2:47 PM
Book Review | Writing India’s own history of libertarian economic thought leadership
This is a book of economic and social history which shows future possibilities
06 Apr 2024 2:55 PM
Book Review | The importance of being an earnestly-radicalised, young Muslim
We see two sides of Mahmud throughout the book
06 Apr 2024 2:50 PM
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
06 Apr 2024 2:45 PM
Book Excerpt | How Telugu films celebrate folk heroes and NTR created Bobbili sub-genre
Folk stories are also where Telugu cinema draws its method of exaggerated emotions from.
31 Mar 2024 12:05 AM
Book Review | Nature the teacher in land of renunciation
The book is many-layered as it moves between the past and the present. Memory and its sister recollection imbue the lives of the characters.
30 Mar 2024 11:05 PM
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
30 Mar 2024 9:27 PM
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
23 Mar 2024 1:44 PM
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
23 Mar 2024 1:42 PM
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
23 Mar 2024 1:38 PM
Book Review | Editor’s honesty forges unlikely friendship in world of letters
His first book, The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya, launched Guha’s literary career
18 Mar 2024 12:27 AM
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
17 Mar 2024 1:06 PM
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
17 Mar 2024 12:54 PM
Book review | A writer’s diary is a repository of ideas
One thread that runs through Kumar’s Yellow Book is the pandemic
09 Mar 2024 8:49 PM
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
09 Mar 2024 8:40 PM
AI cannot imagine something new and original that can have impact years later: Laurent Daudet
The threat of AI-driven job loss and corporate takeover of the world is more real than we anticipated
09 Mar 2024 2:19 PM
Book Review | When the fiction is so gratifying, can journalism be ever enough?
They expose systematically love jiihad, population jihad and Muslim appeasement with facts and figures
09 Mar 2024 2:15 PM
Columns
Tensions between Israel and Iran reach new heights following recent military actions, raising concerns about wider conflict.
An examination of the events leading up to and during India's devastating second wave of COVID-19.
As the 2024 Lok Sabha elections loom, the political landscape is rife with tension and uncertainty.
Netflix's 'Scoop' delves into Prince Andrew's controversial ties with Jeffrey Epstein, revealing a dim and self-obsessed character.