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Zelaldinus: A Masque Aleph Book Company, pp.168, Rs 399

Presenting the past

Author Irwin Allan Sealy marries history with fiction and twists the arm of an emperor's ghost in a cross-border love...

5 July 2017 1:02 AM IST

The Essential Ambedkar by Bhalchandra Mungekar Rupa, Rs 395.

A rich insight into Ambedkar's mind

This makes it specially important to consider the contribution made by the book to this debate.

2 July 2017 3:54 AM IST

The Other Half of Happiness by Ayisha Malik Bloomsbury, Rs 399.

Keeping faith and living life on your own terms

The sex is great, and while the mandatory shower and shampoo after it is terribly tedious, she follows the rituals...

2 July 2017 3:47 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivers the Independence Day speech on August 15 in New Delhi.

Book review: Decoding Modi's feats and incentives

This book is about Mr Modi and the inclusive transformation he has wrought in governing India.

30 Jun 2017 12:30 AM IST

Aliens in delhi by Sami Ahmad Khan Niyogi Books pp. 300, Rs 190.

SF seeks to come of age in India

Other languages too have seen occasional efforts but it is only in the last few years that the genre has begun to...

28 Jun 2017 12:53 AM IST

The windfall by Diksha Basu Bloomsbury India pp. 304, Rs 374.

Comedy of manners

The story of a family's journey towards realising what it means to make it' in modern India.

28 Jun 2017 12:52 AM IST

Representational Image.

Dealers to protest at Jantar Mantar against General Motors

The dealers are anguished by the decision of GM India to quit the domestic market without providing adequately for them.

26 Jun 2017 2:29 PM IST

The Holy Woman by Qaisra Shahraz Tara India Research Press, Rs 395

Book review: A feminist, conditions applied'...

The book is all about izzat, mother's tears, father's pride, a child who needs a mother, a mother who needs the company...

25 Jun 2017 12:57 AM IST

Behind Bars: Prison Tales of Indias Most Famous by Sunetra Choudhury Roli Books, Rs 395

Book review: Page 3 crowd and their shenanigans in Tihar

The book is a respectable initiative towards the commencement of a dialogue over life in Indian jails.

25 Jun 2017 12:52 AM IST

Unsung heroes of Fort champion reading

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