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Book Review | Kargil Doctor’s Memoir Is Gritty And Entertaining

Book Review | Kargil Doctor’s Memoir Is Gritty And Entertaining

It is the winter of 1998, and while his fellow graduates are in the bigger cities with large, well-established hospitals...

2 Aug 2025 7:38 PM IST

Book Review | Sufi Symbols, Afghanistan Jazz up Murder Mystery

Book Review | Sufi Symbols, Afghanistan Jazz up Murder Mystery

If the storytelling had been more incisive, The Sufi Storyteller could have been a book I’d love

26 July 2025 2:24 PM IST

Book Review | Crime, Love Triangle in the Cantonment

Book Review | Crime, Love Triangle in the Cantonment

The book published shortly before the first-ever batch of 17 lady cadets passed out of the NDA in the end of May 2025,...

26 July 2025 2:23 PM IST

Book Review | Rethink Men’s Roles at Home

Book Review | Rethink Men’s Roles at Home

Pandey's approach is multi-dimensional. He lists up nonchalantly the ‘things’ that men did and did not ‘touch

26 July 2025 2:23 PM IST

Book Review | The Other RK Who Gifted Classics

Book Review | The Other RK Who Gifted Classics

Music, specifically songs, were the most effective marketing tool in the days of radio where, incidentally Raj Khosla...

19 July 2025 1:39 PM IST

Book Review | Social Realism From a Place That Time Forgot

Book Review | Social Realism From a Place That Time Forgot

Parallel dark strands of caste discrimination and bureaucratic indifference run through the stories

19 July 2025 1:38 PM IST

Book Review | Vignettes from Jeet Thayil’s Rollercoaster Life

Book Review | Vignettes from Jeet Thayil’s Rollercoaster Life

This is Jeet Thayil’s story about his own life, his parents, cousins and uncles, his native place

19 July 2025 1:36 PM IST

Book Review | How Indian State Failed Kashmiris

Book Review | How Indian State Failed Kashmiris

Overall, the discussion in the book is about the failure of the Indian state as a deliberate enterprise, not just on...

12 July 2025 1:01 PM IST

Book Review | Of X-rays, CT & Tragedy at AIIMS

Book Review | Of X-rays, CT & Tragedy at AIIMS

You would not get a better account of the hours that Indira Gandhi’s body remained at AIIMS before it was shifted to...

12 July 2025 12:59 PM IST

Book Review | Story of a Gun and a Boy Forced to Grow Up Quickly

Book Review | Story of a Gun and a Boy Forced to Grow Up Quickly

The narrative is packed with action and keeps the reader engaged. The plot moves through towns, gangs, families,...

12 July 2025 12:58 PM IST

Book Review | Before India Almost Became A Badminton Superpower

Book Review | Before India Almost Became A Badminton Superpower

Net Flicks, authored by the father-son duo of Vijay and Akshay Lokapally, attempts to set the record straight, detailing...

6 July 2025 1:15 PM IST

Book Review | Gen. Shrinagesh Moved Tanks To Zoji La Pass

Book Review | Gen. Shrinagesh Moved Tanks To Zoji La Pass

Among the earliest batches of Indians to be nominated for the Sandhurst Military Academy, UK, he won the Quetta Cup for...

6 July 2025 1:07 PM IST