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From Kargil to the Coup: Events that shook Pakistan by Nasim Zehra, Sang-e-Meel Publications, Rs 2,283

Why Sharif endorsed Pervez's Kargil misadventure

Zehra writes, had not factored in the critical problems of logistical stretch.

21 Oct 2018 12:17 AM IST

Divya Prakash Dubey

The earnest storyteller

Divya Prakash Dubey's Musafir Caf© reminds us that there's more to life than to-do lists.

17 Oct 2018 12:52 AM IST

Love in the time of war

Daman Singh speaks about setting World War II as the backdrop for her novel Kitty's War.

17 Oct 2018 12:52 AM IST

Calcutta Then Kolkata Now by Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, Pramod Kapoor, Indrajit Hazra, Anshika Varma Roli Books, Rs 3,500

Kolkata, where slowness of life clangswith happily insane chaos

Excerpt from the book Calcutta Then, Kolkata Now published by Roli Books.

14 Oct 2018 1:31 AM IST

Queen Elizabeth II speaking to Sridhar Balan at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi in 1997.

Discovering the Queen's love for books

One of the highlights in the Queen's itinerary was the inauguration of the Indo-British Participation and Summit Meeting...

12 Oct 2018 12:26 AM IST

Letters to the dead

Keki Daruwalla's latest offering touches upon the topics of dissent and McCarthyism.

10 Oct 2018 12:37 AM IST

Siddhartha Gigoo

A tender tale of romance

A poignant love story between a Kashmiri man and Muslim woman, who lives across the border, is what this book is about.

10 Oct 2018 12:37 AM IST

Pralay The Great Deluge by Vineet Bajpai VB Performance LLP pp 315; Rs 250.

Vineet Bajpai's Harappa trilogy is a perfect mix of history, fiction...

India, with its rich culture and unmatched heritage has a veritable treasure of stories just waiting to be told.

5 Oct 2018 3:21 AM IST

Test Cricketers of India by Kishin R. Wadhwaney and Ravi Kant Srivastava, Sports Educational Technologies, Daryaganj, New Delhi.

This tome will come in handy for fans

Books seem almost old-fashioned these days, but they need to be on the shelves of every book lover as well as cricket...

2 Oct 2018 12:57 AM IST

The Bollywood Bride by Sonali Dev, HarperCollins, Rs 299.

A touching story of love, longing and sacrifices in showbiz

The book falls short of a literary masterpiece and that is not because of its flawed heroine.

30 Sept 2018 1:42 AM IST

Sugandhi Alias Andal Devanayaki by T.D. Ramakrishnan, translated by Priya K. Nair, HarperCollins, Rs 399.

Gendered resistance meshes myth

The novel is of 242 pages, out of which 115 pages are devoted to myth only.

30 Sept 2018 1:41 AM IST

Jadoowallahs, Jugglers and Jinns by John Zubrzycki, Pan Macmillan, Rs 699.

The circumstance and pomp of magic

Zubrzycki focuses on magic and its derivates as entertainment, and has brought to life the history of the art in India.

30 Sept 2018 1:39 AM IST