Book review
Comey calls Trump unfit, ‘A mafia warlord’
Comey narrates the story of his entire life as a principled fight against bullies, without sounding preachy or unreal.
A timely warning about fascism to a tottering world
The fascist takeover of her native Czechoslovakia forced her to flee with her parents.
Of missing wife and a newfound second love
The Unseeing Idol of Light is a nice story that could have been better with a ruthless editor.
An insight into chronicles of RAW & ISI spy games
This is not the recording of a scholarly seminar, nor the minutes of a dreary conference of high officials.
A cat and mouse game of reward and punishment
Tabish Khair takes the reader on a journey that forces him to confront big questions.
Tracing the rapid rise and speedy fall of Bhutto
Reading this book one cannot help thinking that Bhutto was probably his own worst enemy.
Hilarious and gripping adventure
The book is Dev Sen’s diary-ish account of her 1977 trip to Tawang.
Magnum opus on AfPak history Of CIA, ISI at work
A substantial part of the book is about the collusion between Pakistan’s military-controlled spy agency, the ISI and the Taliban.
‘We’re doing well on green energy’
India can learn a lot on what China is doing on sanitation, on pollution and green finance agenda.
Raj days: When women were honoured in their absence
The Portuguese, who had preceded the British, used to send annual batches of women for marriage with their officials in Goa.