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The tandoor murder Maxwell Pereira, Context, pp.280, Rs 469

Murder most foul

An insider's account of the murder investigation that shook a nation.

28 March 2018 12:31 AM IST

A dream world more real than reality

A dream world more real than reality

Instead, Manisha, like many urban working wives, shuts out the world through a bottle.

28 March 2018 12:30 AM IST

The Wounds of the Dead by Vikram Paralkar, Fourth Estate, Rs 324

Magically unreal with a touch of absurd

Magic realism is a difficult genre to pull off but Paralkar has managed to do so with aplomb.

25 March 2018 12:45 AM IST

Split: A Life by Taslima Nasrin, Hamish Hamilton, Rs 329

A summary of ruptures

In its materiality it asserts the power of the printed word and the reaction it triggers in those who fear the word.

25 March 2018 12:44 AM IST

Sanjay Dutt with first wife Richa Sharma and Kumar Gaurav.

A life not seen through rose-tinted glasses

In a career spanning almost four decades and more than 100 films, Sanjay Dutt has only around 10 noteworthy films, a...

25 March 2018 12:43 AM IST

Dekyi Linka, the Indian Mission in Lhasa till 1952 (thereafter the Indian Consulate-General).

How Tibet lost its independence and India its gentle neighbour

It relates to the sequence of events and the role of KM Panikkar, the Indian Ambassador in China, during the weeks after...

23 March 2018 12:41 AM IST

Devapriya Roy and Priya Kuriyan

A unique book on Indira

Indira by Devapriya Roy and Priya Kuriyan is an intriguing work on the life of Indira Gandhi.

22 March 2018 12:19 AM IST

Adolf Hitler (Photo: AP)

Indian publisher lands in fix for featuring Hitler as great leader' on...

Organisation questioned publisher B Jain's Pegasus division of incorporating picture and asked them to pull book from...

21 March 2018 4:26 PM IST

Walks help immensely to clear my head. The busier I am, the luckier I get with expressions and ideas and at cracking plots.

The busier I am, the luckier I get at cracking plots'

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov. So suffused as it is with sensory images that I can read and be dazzled by it over...

21 March 2018 12:15 AM IST

Bioscope: A Frivolous History of Bollywood in Ten Chapters Diptakirti Chaudhuri, Hachette India, pp.232, Rs 280

Bollywood on a list

One of Diptakirti's favourite nuggets in his latest offering is what he likes to call songs of separation.

21 March 2018 12:14 AM IST

The Aryabhata Clan by Sudipto Das, Niyogi Books, Rs 595

Cracking symbols the Dan Brown way

The stakes are high a terrorist group is plotting to destroy India's most significant and recognisable symbol of Mughal...

18 March 2018 1:42 AM IST

Jasoda: A Novel by Kiran Nagarkar Harper Collins, Rs 300

A tale not for the faint-hearted

Jasoda begins stoic and remains so going about the business of living life the best she can.

18 March 2018 1:41 AM IST