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Unsung heroes of Fort champion reading

Yakuta Haji walks down DN Road, mingling with the unlikliest minds trying to kindle the passion of reading into the...

24 Jun 2017 12:34 AM IST

A file picture of Mohammed Ali Jinnah

How Pakistan is courting the abyss

For Jinnah, Pakistan' was more a means of grasping power, rather than any conviction of creating an Islamic state.

23 Jun 2017 12:48 AM IST

Shanthi Sekaran

Motherly love and painful realities of immigration

Shanthi joined an MFA program at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and took her first step into writing.

21 Jun 2017 12:42 AM IST

The queen by Anita Sivakumaran Juggernaut pp.296, Rs 278.

Woman of steel

The fictionalised story of a woman's meteoric rise to fame and power from a student to a superstar and then to chief...

21 Jun 2017 12:41 AM IST

Things to Leave Behind, by Namita Gokhale Penguin Random House India, Rs 305.

The history of love

It is this part of the novel that introduces us to the characters whose lives we will follow for the remainder.

18 Jun 2017 5:25 AM IST

Reporting Pakistan, by Meena menon Penguin Random House India 384 pages; Rs 599.

Joys and travails of being an Indian reporter in Pakistan

Alas, just reporting the politics in our context sharpens bellicosity in the reader's mind and does not draw in the many...

18 Jun 2017 5:19 AM IST

Two Saints: Speculations Around and About Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Ramana Maharishi by Arun Shourie Harper Collins, Rs 515.

Two separate lives, a singular pursuit

These are figures that have millions of devotees and whose words have revelatory and evidentiary status.

18 Jun 2017 5:13 AM IST

By K. Lalita and Deepa Dhanraj Orient BlackSwan, Rs 892.

Book serves to expose hypocrisy of Hindutva icons

The riots that caused the rupture and loss that the book's title refers to go all the way back to 1983.

16 Jun 2017 1:15 AM IST

US translator Jessica Cohen and Israeli author David Grossman pose for a photograph with his book A Horse Walks Into a Bar at the shortlist photocall for the Man Booker International Prize at St. James Church in London. (Photo: AFP)

Israel's Grossman wins Man Booker

Grossman, the first Israeli writer to win the prize, is now expected to enjoy a spike in international sales for A Horse...

16 Jun 2017 1:10 AM IST

Stories from the other side of the fence

Reporting Pakistan is her account of the nine months she had spent reporting about Pakistan from Islamabad.

16 Jun 2017 12:18 AM IST

Though unlike his other books, this one narrates the slightly ominous happenings around Raghu, whos suicidal, through his journal entries.

Drama, death and despair

First of a two-part romance, author Durjoy Datta presents a narrative that is dark, edgy, quirky, realistic yet...

14 Jun 2017 12:07 AM IST

This time, he explores Mumbai through his latest crime novel, The Third Squad.

An inadvertent explorer, I observe people and overhear conversations:...

In an interview, he takes us through the process of writing his book.

14 Jun 2017 12:06 AM IST