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Insider Outsider: Belonging and Unbelonging in North East India Edited by Preeti Gill & Samrat Choudhary Amaryllis, Rs 399Books
Otherness and unbelonging in the Northeast

The focus of the Partition of India has for too long been on the line drawn on India's western border, through Punjab.

31 March 2019 4:43 AM IST

The Uninhabitable Earth: life after warming by David Wallace-Wells Penguin Random House Rs 499Books
Boldly questioning the climate status quo

The Arctic, Russia, the Nordic countries and Canada would be temperate, safe havens, which survivors would fight to...

31 March 2019 4:38 AM IST

Narendra Modi and L.K. Advani at a BJP national executive meeting. (Photo: PTI)Books
When realpolitik, and nothing else, determines state policy

Atal Bihari Vajpayee was also a product of the same ideology as Modi; but he failed to create an organic mix of ideology...

29 March 2019 1:09 AM IST

Amartya Sen, who is the author of Reason before Identity.Books
How often do we place reason' before identity'?

A lot of innovative ideas were thrown up but the allotted time was over before the mike could come to me.

29 March 2019 12:54 AM IST

Jeffrey ArcherBooks
Head' for intrigue and a yen for drama

Jeffrey Archer's latest novel is an exciting blend that combines the nexus between politics and capitalism, making it a...

28 March 2019 5:12 AM IST

Chetan BhagatBooks
This is my surprise'

Chetan Bhagat during the launch of the Malayalam translation of his book The Girl in Room 105, relives his attempt to...

27 March 2019 1:39 AM IST

Dipa Karmakar: The Small Wonder by Bishweshar Nandi, Digvijay Singh Deo and Vimal Mohan Fingerprint Publishing, Rs 499Books
How Indian gymnast' stopped being an oxymoron

The book has some priceless photographs from the history of gymnastics in Tripura and some personal ones from Dipa's...

24 March 2019 2:44 AM IST

10 Women Who Changed Science and the World By Catherine Whitlock and Rhodri Evans Hachette, £13.99Books
Pathfinding in obscurity: Science's sheroes

The research that has gone into reconstructing the lives of each scientist is fool-proof.

24 March 2019 2:37 AM IST

Tina BiswasBooks
The murky world of politics

The author's third novel is inspired by the happenings in a small forgotten town in Bengal.

21 March 2019 1:50 AM IST

Novoneel ChakrabortyBooks
An ode to women

Novoneel Chakraborty talks about his autobiographical novel Half Torn Hearts.

21 March 2019 1:49 AM IST

Ayodhya: City of Faith, City of Discord by Valay Singh Aleph Book Company, Rs 799Books
Embattled Ayodhya's syncretic past

There is little in Singh's book by way of clues to the committee in its effort at solving the complex communal puzzle.

17 March 2019 5:39 AM IST

Healing Scars through her proseBooks
Healing Scars through her prose

A visit to a burns wards led Ria Sharma on the path to helping survivors, and writing this debut book.

13 March 2019 12:21 AM IST

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