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Book Review | An All-too-Familiar Loneliness?

Book Review | An All-too-Familiar Loneliness?

The delicacy of observation and lightness of prose on offer here makes for pleasant reading, but often resembles the...

4 Oct 2025 1:06 PM IST

Book Review | Can Left Rise Again? A Saucy View

Book Review | Can Left Rise Again? A Saucy View

The book and its author do keep the flag flying for those who believe the world should be a far more just and equitable...

27 Sept 2025 1:44 PM IST

Book Review | Too Much Solipsism Spoils the Memoir

Book Review | Too Much Solipsism Spoils the Memoir

It would have been nice if this memoir was only about her relationship with Rayya, who was an extremely colourful...

27 Sept 2025 1:42 PM IST

Book Review | Road Trip Novel Dissects a Marriage

Book Review | Road Trip Novel Dissects a Marriage

Markovits’ writing brings out best of all the narrator’s character

27 Sept 2025 1:40 PM IST

Book Review | How Did AAP Lose Its Mojo?

Book Review | How Did AAP Lose Its Mojo?

: Kejriwal's experiment with soft Hindutva failed to take root. “Despite calibrated attempts to appropriate religious...

20 Sept 2025 3:53 PM IST

Book Review | The Other Bleak House

Book Review | The Other Bleak House

It is a bleak setting, but the slow-paced engagement with memories, slipping identities and metaphors is presented by...

20 Sept 2025 3:19 PM IST

Book Review | Inside The Mind Of A Taciturn Man

Book Review | Inside The Mind Of A Taciturn Man

Though this his sparest work yet, there is a miraculous ease, a literary sleight-of-hand, with which the author...

20 Sept 2025 3:07 PM IST

Book Review | Snake Mythologies From Around The World

Book Review | Snake Mythologies From Around The World

The book is a formidable exploration of the practice of ophiolatry (the worship of serpents), myths and symbols ranging...

13 Sept 2025 4:45 PM IST

Bool Review | Wit, Wounds And Gated Lives

Bool Review | Wit, Wounds And Gated Lives

One also wonders if this might have worked better as a Netflix talk show: punchy, provocative. As a book, it meanders...

13 Sept 2025 4:35 PM IST

Book Review | Unhappy Marriage Of Chick Lit, Social Satire

Book Review | Unhappy Marriage Of Chick Lit, Social Satire

We meet Geetika when she’s studying at a government college in Ajmer, a colourful place where fights between Rajput and...

13 Sept 2025 4:27 PM IST

Book Review | True Story of Journalist Growing up in a Kotha

Book Review | True Story of Journalist Growing up in a Kotha

Manish or Monty (named after Rishi Kapoor in Karz) is born in a squalid kotha in north Calcutta’s Bandook Gully, amidst...

6 Sept 2025 1:54 PM IST

Book Review | Innovation Migrates from Silicon Valley

Book Review | Innovation Migrates from Silicon Valley

This mapping of technological innovations is an allegory for the complexities of cultures, competition and collaboration...

6 Sept 2025 1:49 PM IST