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Book Review | How Anglo-Indians transformed India

The book covers much more than the things I’ve described, of course. It is as comprehensive as any book about any community can be

04 Dec 2022 8:09 AM

Book Review | Bose revisited: Whose Netaji is he anyway?

Krishna Bose was an authority on Netaji’s life and times and is the author of several books on him

04 Dec 2022 8:03 AM

Book Review | Understanding the beef over cow politics

The author laments that the National Crime Records Bureau has nothing on lynching, cow slaughter crimes and crimes registered for beef ban

04 Dec 2022 7:57 AM

Book on Chipko movement wins Kamaladevi Prize

The winner receives a cash award of Rs 15 lakhs, a trophy and a citation

02 Dec 2022 6:25 PM

Book Review | People aren’t too different, in Mumbai or in U.S.

Book Review of 'Border Less' by Namrata Poddar

27 Nov 2022 1:47 AM

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Book Review | Love tangles with family as Great Calcutta Killings rage

Book Review of 'Independence' by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

27 Nov 2022 1:44 AM

Book Review | India@75: Talking heads take stock, list challenges

Book Review of 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav: India@75' edited by Surendra Kumar

27 Nov 2022 1:42 AM

Book Review | The soul of a river, poured into saga of fatherhood and crime

Roy’s success lies in the fact that it is actually comforting to read her work not just for the clarity but also the beauty it generates

20 Nov 2022 1:40 AM

Book Review | Quasi-autobiographical & sanitised trip back to 1980s’ Mumbai

There’s a disquieting view of the country’s education system, as Yuri discovers in preparing for the tuitions that generate his income

20 Nov 2022 1:38 AM

Book Review | Who’s afraid of growing old?

The book, strangely, given my pessimism about ageing, made me smile

20 Nov 2022 1:35 AM

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Book Review | Diary of 17-yr-old girl of Netaji’s INA evokes Bengal’s heady past

Review of 'The War Diary of Asha-San' by Lt Bharati ‘Asha’ Sahay Choudhry

13 Nov 2022 1:30 AM

Book Review | Narrating the Lankan experience in guise of a supernatural thriller

Review of 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' by Shehan Karunatilaka

13 Nov 2022 1:27 AM

Book Review | Was Ambedkar Gandhi’s best critic or worst?

Review of 'Ambedkar: A Life by Shashi Tharoor'

06 Nov 2022 1:58 AM

Book Review | A frothy retelling of the journey of Pak & the world in last 8 yrs

Review of 'Between You, Me and the Four Walls' by Moni Mohsin

06 Nov 2022 1:55 AM

Book Review | The Memsahib among Indians, her ‘burden’ and her doubts

Book Review of 'Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India' by Ipshita Nath

06 Nov 2022 1:52 AM

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Book Review | When innocence meets adversity and cliques clash with character

Review of 'The Bellboy' by Anees Salim

30 Oct 2022 1:39 AM

Book Review | Climate change and evolution of the ‘crooked’ cat

Review of 'Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene' by Nayanika Mathur

30 Oct 2022 1:37 AM

Book Review | Fables study climate, capital and the flawed beauty of our lives

Dangerous Pursuits demonstrates the writer’s depth of thought and breadth of skill. We float effortlessly from satire and humour to poetry

23 Oct 2022 1:36 AM

Book Review | Discoveries from the desk of a Booker winner

These stories remind us of the author of the DSC Prize winning Chinaman and the Booker Prize winning The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

23 Oct 2022 1:21 AM

Book Review | How India got Hodgson’s Line erased and won the race to Siachen

The result is that the book reads like a thriller and will thus appeal to a wide audience

15 Oct 2022 10:53 PM

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