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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Writing women'... It's tricky and difficult

The book spans the struggles of three generations of Indian women with love, loss and erosion of culture.

20 Jan 2017 1:35 AM IST

Writeful reinvention

Pakistani author Sarvat Hasin takes the classic Little Women and sets it in the 1970s Pakistan, in her debut novel This...

18 Jan 2017 12:41 AM IST

Tales from the battleground

Aditya Iyengar's debut novel, The Thirteenth Day, explored the Kurukshetra War through the eyes of Yudhishthira, Karna...

18 Jan 2017 12:40 AM IST

Dvarca by Madhav Mathur FingerPrint! Rs 295

Book review: A world full of Nakuls, Vidurs and Narads

Dvarca's world is separated from our own only by a small stretch of the imagination.

15 Jan 2017 2:03 AM IST

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double Down by Jeff Kinney Puffin, Rs 399

Book review: Just the right dose of wit, laughter

The book starts with Heffley, who has seen a movie as a little kid about a man whose whole life is secretly filmed for a...

15 Jan 2017 1:56 AM IST

Martin Luther King Jr. and

A brilliant chronicle of racist thinking

The book's title comes from a speech by Jefferson Davis, given the year before he became president of the Confederate...

13 Jan 2017 2:00 AM IST

The Indo-US Strategic partnership was elevated in 2014-15 mainly due to a meeting of minds of Obama and Modi, on global and regional issues of common concerns

A holistic view of India's security

The chapter on internal security situation analyses the relevant factors for sustenance of various outfits.

13 Jan 2017 1:49 AM IST

The Curse Of Mohenjo Daro by Maha Khan Phillips

Mind is ultimate weapon in thriller set in Mohenjo Daro

This is in the end a thriller dominated by women with the mind acting as the ultimate weapon in a patriarchal male...

11 Jan 2017 12:26 AM IST

Heroine-ism

There have been warriors, rulers and leaders among women, but only a handful remain in our memories.

11 Jan 2017 12:24 AM IST

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

2017 Reading order

2017 is an exciting year for books in India. Arundhati Roy, Kamila Shamsie and Mohsin Hamid will return with new...

8 Jan 2017 3:56 AM IST

Probably the most damning part of the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose mystery relates to former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastris surprising and mysterious death in Tashkent.

Bose: A case of what could have been

Gandhi put him under Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, whom Bose later acknowledged as his political guru.

6 Jan 2017 12:51 AM IST

Romancing the Chicks: Stories, Recipes and Thoughts by Mandaar Sukhtankar Westland pp.208, Rs 599.

Tantalising tales

Chef and now author, Mandaar Sukhtankar is as much at ease whipping up culinary delights as he is writing.

4 Jan 2017 12:23 AM IST