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Trauma beneath a picture perfect life

I must begin my review of Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll with a disclaimer: after I finished it, I was totally...

5 Jun 2016 1:55 AM IST

Conflict Communication By I. Ramamohan Rao Pentagon Press, pp. 182, Rs 446

Delving into the details of conflict communication

Those who persuaded I. Ramamohan Rao to write this book — his daughter Smita and his son-in-law, Sanjiv Prakash,...

1 Jun 2016 6:07 AM IST

Surfing the online matrimonial market

Himika Ganguly is a marketing and communications professional and currently working as Senior assistant director, for...

31 May 2016 10:47 PM IST

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Fact to fiction

Romance blooms in a thriller that explores the horrifying crime circuit of selling and buying babies.

31 May 2016 10:45 PM IST

Argentina’s Lionel Messiis helped off the field after getting injured during Friday’s game. (Photo: AP)

A bumpy road to arranged marriage

Broadly, literature can be divided into fiction and non-fiction. The former is when the book happens inside you. You...

29 May 2016 6:24 AM IST

Parenting in the Age of Facebook By Marzia Hassan, Rupa Publications, pp. 200, Rs 221

Playing on parental paranoia

Parenting is clearly a tricky issue — everyone has more than two-bit to say on it, parent or otherwise! One can...

25 May 2016 1:56 AM IST

River of flesh and other stories, Edited by Ruchira Gupta, Speaking Tiger pp. 274, Rs 244

Prostitutes are characters with lives and dreams

Call it sex work or slavery, prostitution tends to be viewed mostly in one dimension.

25 May 2016 1:54 AM IST

Tahmima ends trilogy with search for love & identity

Bangladesh, now more in news for extra judicial killings of liberal professors and secular bloggers, is a young nation,...

25 May 2016 1:51 AM IST

Some of the banners displayed at the exhibition at India International Centre

Banners of concern

Indian contemporary artists come together to use art as a medium of expression to begin a dialogue on social and...

24 May 2016 11:49 PM IST

This is a book that flits like a butterfly between romance and classrooms.

Hedonistic world of the privileged youth

Hedon — perhaps the cover captures it, a shocking pink glitzy butterfly on stark black. Signed by just one name,...

24 May 2016 11:35 PM IST

Dark thrills

Three characters going through existential crisis and lots of crazy partying cross paths in a tale of mystery with...

24 May 2016 11:32 PM IST

Murder mystery gone wrong

Murder mystery gone wrong

Since he killed a little girl by mistake along with his target, ace CIA assassin Will Robie can’t pull the trigger...

22 May 2016 1:51 AM IST