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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

Hollywood actress Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher's books become bestsellers after her death

Fisher's book, The Princess Diarist, was on top of Amazon's list of best-selling books on Wednesday, just ahead of Zero...

30 Dec 2016 6:37 AM IST

From Inside The Steel Frame by Ashok Pandey, Palimpsest Publishers Rs 339

2016 was a year of books, books and more books

Gautam Padmanabhan, CEO, Westland Ltd finds 2016 as a year of steady growth at Westland.

30 Dec 2016 2:42 AM IST

A still from the movie Dangal

Man behind Aamir's Dangal look to reveal secrets in book

Aamir said, No cheat days! Reducing body fat to less than 10 per cent for Dangal was not easy.

30 Dec 2016 2:37 AM IST

Three-Body Problem is a trilogy and this is the first of the books, a tale of an alien invasion which, in classic Asimov fashion, has bearings on the political climate.

A tale of alien invasion on earth and its aftermath

Aliens are being threatened with extinction in the solar system to which they belong and their solution is to invade...

28 Dec 2016 12:06 AM IST