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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

Book Review | An Iranian’s Secret Account Of Surviving Massacre

Book Review | An Iranian’s Secret Account Of Surviving Massacre

Then the author walks the reader through the months preceding the attack to get an idea of how it occurred. Second, it’s...

30 Aug 2026 2:39 AM IST

Book Review | Poet’s Eye View Of Two Curious Babies

Book Review | Poet’s Eye View Of Two Curious Babies

Of the two, it is Marigold who is terribly ambitious — she yearns to write a book, and is waiting impatiently to learn...

30 Aug 2026 2:26 AM IST

Book Review | Case For More Christ, Less Tech

Book Review | Case For More Christ, Less Tech

J.D. Vance counts J.R.R. Tolkien, G.K. Chesterton, St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas among his intellectual influences....

30 Aug 2026 2:18 AM IST

Book Review | Chronicle Of The Queen Who Outwitted Aurangzeb

Book Review | Chronicle Of The Queen Who Outwitted Aurangzeb

Tara with four older brothers behaves like the fifth son of the family, much to her mother’s chagrin. Tara’s father...

24 Aug 2026 11:36 PM IST

Book Review | Life As Seen By An Indian Muslim Boy

Book Review | Life As Seen By An Indian Muslim Boy

The innocent, precarious world of childhood is brought alive and the reader experiences the joys and travails of this...

24 Aug 2026 10:06 PM IST

Book Review | American History Written Real-time

Book Review | American History Written Real-time

Jonathan Swan, the book’s Australian-American co-author, is equally knowledgeable about the US President, whom he has...

24 Aug 2026 9:31 PM IST