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Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth by Audrey Truschke Penguin, Rs 399

Book review Aurangzeb: A zealot, or a product of his times?

The best way to view Aurangzeb is as a prince enmeshed in a web of royal dynamics that shaped his early years.

23 April 2017 2:00 AM IST

Indias Untouchables By Gwendolyn Simpson Chabrier Grove Press, pp. 272, Rs 1,088

Book review Hypocrisies of caste: A timely reminder to Indians

The book comes across as one about caste as seen through a Western lens.

21 April 2017 1:35 AM IST

Shantanu Guha Ray

Revisiting India's most gruesome homicides

His latest book titled, Found Dead reopens nine killings that shook the nation.

19 April 2017 12:37 AM IST

Love, loss and survival

Love, loss and survival

Can love blur the line between living and dead.

19 April 2017 12:35 AM IST

Ruttie as a teenaged wife; Jinnah in his forties

Book review: The love affair that shook India

It is because of Reddy's ability to pore through all the material and connect the dots that she brings these two hazy...

16 April 2017 2:10 AM IST

Modis Midas Touch in Foreign Policy By Surendra Kumar Har-Anand Publications Pvt Ltd, pp. 138, Rs 595

Book review: Is Modi the new midas?

The relationship with India's neighbours, other than China and Pakistan, in the Modi era also needed to be placed under...

14 April 2017 2:18 AM IST

Unprecedented The Masters And Me By Tiger Woods with Lorne Rubenstein Sphere, pp. 256, Rs 449

Book review: A foray into a golfer's mind

20 years ago, Tiger Woods burst on a scene with a recordbreaking perofrmance that ignited a career that changed the face...

14 April 2017 2:12 AM IST

Capturing the moment when love happens

Capturing the moment when love happens

The book set in Lahore with a backdrop of the violence and heartache disintegrating Pakistan.

12 April 2017 12:08 AM IST

Still from the film Cafe de Flore for representational purpose.

A mother's struggle

Author Yvvette Edward narrates a gripping tale of a mother's struggles to come to terms with her son's murder.

12 April 2017 12:07 AM IST

The marriage ceremony of Feroze Gandhi and Indira Gandhi, March 26, 1942 at Anand Bhawan, Allahabad.

Book review: Feroze The Gandhi lost in shadows of history

Feroze became a journalist, first with the National Herald, the paper set up by the Congress, and then with the Indian...

9 April 2017 2:32 AM IST

Dangerous Games however takes a step out of the woman of substance world into Trump times.

Corruption and passion in the world of politics

Dangerous Games however takes a step out of the woman of substance world into Trump times.

5 April 2017 12:17 AM IST

Conflict is everything, says Jaina Sanga

Author Jaina Sanga talks about the craft of writing and how landscape plays an important role in her fiction.

5 April 2017 12:12 AM IST