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Book Review | In Thrall of the Image: Poetry in Influencer-ese

Book Review | In Thrall of the Image: Poetry in Influencer-ese

The inward-looking pieces direct the reader’s curiosity back to the short-lived fascinations of personality

30 Aug 2025 1:48 PM IST

Book Review | Scourge Of Hate Crime Still Prevails In Hindi Heartland

Book Review | Scourge Of Hate Crime Still Prevails In Hindi Heartland

The book also deftly illustrates how in order to manufacture a past and uniformity, the region lost much of its rich...

23 Aug 2025 8:37 PM IST

Book Review | Accident Burns Boy, loyalties Burn Family

Book Review | Accident Burns Boy, loyalties Burn Family

The author’s genius lies in the fact that, despite the title, the book does not revolve around a central character, but...

23 Aug 2025 8:34 PM IST

Book Review | What Heals The Hurt Of Exile? Travel Or Stories?

Book Review | What Heals The Hurt Of Exile? Travel Or Stories?

Taseer has been an intrepid traveller, right from his debut novel, a quest which ended with a meeting with his...

23 Aug 2025 7:42 PM IST

Book Review | Doc Who Tried to Stop Partition

Book Review | Doc Who Tried to Stop Partition

After Independence, Davar continued to play an important role with the refugees who flooded Delhi, and he was Nehru’s...

16 Aug 2025 1:36 PM IST

Book Review | Mysterious House Pays Witness to Awakenings

Book Review | Mysterious House Pays Witness to Awakenings

Beautifully written, and with a solid plot in place, it’s not surprising that this debut novel was shortlisted for the...

16 Aug 2025 1:35 PM IST

Book Review | Fierce Interrogation into Moral State of Our World

Book Review | Fierce Interrogation into Moral State of Our World

Small Boat, French author and philosopher Vincent Delecroix’s taut, whiplash of a novella, turns on these true events to...

16 Aug 2025 1:26 PM IST

Book Review | A Close Look at Indian Diaspora

Book Review | A Close Look at Indian Diaspora

If during the colonial period, it was “wealth drain” as pointed out by Dadabhai Naoroji and Gopal Krishna Gokhale, it...

9 Aug 2025 2:20 PM IST

Book Review | Combo of Ludlum, Brown and Indiana Jones

Book Review | Combo of Ludlum, Brown and Indiana Jones

The author goes on to observe in the end that force — strength — is the only way to preserve peace, but the evidence...

9 Aug 2025 2:14 PM IST

Book Review | Did President’s Hubby Kill the Cheerleader?

Book Review | Did President’s Hubby Kill the Cheerleader?

It is a thriller plain and simple, and one designed to captivate the average reader and keep her hooked till the last...

9 Aug 2025 2:07 PM IST

Book Review | A Quirky Thriller About Illegal Foods!

Book Review | A Quirky Thriller About Illegal Foods!

When Adair (who claims he has the ears and wallets of New York’s elite) cannot help, Kash has no choice but to take a...

2 Aug 2025 8:01 PM IST

Book Review | Zany, Wide-angle View Of South Asia

Book Review | Zany, Wide-angle View Of South Asia

To take the whole British India, from Aden to Burma, and see it as one entity which was subsequently dismantled and then...

2 Aug 2025 7:50 PM IST