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Book Review | The Private Life of Prime Ministers

Book Review | The Private Life of Prime Ministers

The book’s discussions of the personal lives of PMs are interesting, insightful, and at times even heartwarming

4 Oct 2026 7:45 AM IST

Book Review | When a Woman’s Life Becomes Just a Hashtag

Book Review | When a Woman’s Life Becomes Just a Hashtag

The humour stops the novel from being merely a story of victimhood. The result is an angry, funny, formally experimental...

4 Oct 2026 7:43 AM IST

Book Review | A Man-Hating Mother-in-law

Book Review | A Man-Hating Mother-in-law

This is book is about relationships, and how talking through them may help. Or not

4 Oct 2026 7:42 AM IST

Book Review | Hazrat Mahal, Unlikely Achiever

Book Review | Hazrat Mahal, Unlikely Achiever

Prince Wajid Ali Shah of Awadh meets Hazrat Mahal through two singers in 1843. She joins the paris in his Pari Khana, a...

26 Sept 2026 3:45 PM IST

Book Review | A Young Mother’s Horror Story From Afghanistan

Book Review | A Young Mother’s Horror Story From Afghanistan

City of Widows is set in Afghanistan across two timelines. From 2010 onwards, we witness a pregnant teenaged runaway...

26 Sept 2026 3:04 PM IST

Book Review | Batanagar’s Journey From Sole To Soul

Book Review | Batanagar’s Journey From Sole To Soul

The author has not just recreated her childhood memories of the township she called home, she has been blunt enough to...

26 Sept 2026 2:32 PM IST

Book Review | A Well-Crafted Biography of the 14th Dalai Lama

Book Review | A Well-Crafted Biography of the 14th Dalai Lama

Biographies of globally revered figures often run the risk of becoming either too reverential or too burdened by...

13 Sept 2026 3:54 PM IST

Book Review | City That Let Its Boomers Out

Book Review | City That Let Its Boomers Out

There are five main characters in this book: three people, a room and a city. And they are all inextricably connected;...

13 Sept 2026 3:45 PM IST

Book Review | Do Stories Bind Humanity?

Book Review | Do Stories Bind Humanity?

Wendy Doniger’s 1998 title, The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth, is rooted in a conversation between two...

13 Sept 2026 3:39 PM IST

Book Review | An Anatomy of Fascist Hindutva

Book Review | An Anatomy of Fascist Hindutva

Anglo-American poet of the first half of the 20th century, T.S. Eliot, used to speak of the fusion of thought and...

5 Sept 2026 1:09 PM IST

Book Review | A Blunt-edged Novel Of Marital Collapse

Book Review | A Blunt-edged Novel Of Marital Collapse

We open in a couple’s bedroom. Our unnamed protagonist is told by her husband of thirteen years that their marriage is...

5 Sept 2026 1:05 PM IST

Book Review | India as He Has Lived It

Book Review | India as He Has Lived It

The book will be rewarding for those who enjoy a good read about the small pieces that make up the mosaic of the life of...

5 Sept 2026 12:59 PM IST