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Top Ten Books Of The Week (June 18, 2026)

Top Ten Books Of The Week (June 18, 2026)

Books open a new window to the world. This week, book readers showed interest in Constitution, Booksellers and Football...

19 Jun 2026 5:03 PM IST

Book Review | A Short Primer on Advaita

Book Review | A Short Primer on Advaita

A thought-provoking philosophical novel that challenges orthodox notions of celibacy, love and spiritual fulfilment,...

14 Jun 2026 1:19 PM IST

Book Review | A Portrait of Society in Mughal Times

Book Review | A Portrait of Society in Mughal Times

A richly researched exploration of Mughal India that reveals how trade, merchants and markets shaped imperial power,...

14 Jun 2026 1:16 PM IST

Book Review | Deathbed Vigil Still Leaves Key Questions Unasked

Book Review | Deathbed Vigil Still Leaves Key Questions Unasked

George Saunders revisits themes of death, memory and redemption in a darkly comic afterlife tale, but its moral inquiry...

14 Jun 2026 1:14 PM IST

Book Review | Surrealist Fiction Can Be Humorous

Book Review | Surrealist Fiction Can Be Humorous

The story, about the effect of the arrival of a vacuum cleaner salesman on the people of a small town, was not just...

6 Jun 2026 2:26 PM IST

Book Review | Christ As A Buddhist Monk?

Book Review | Christ As A Buddhist Monk?

Fr. Dara travels to Cambridge to meet Banko, tasked with translating the manuscript. Dhondy adds an intriguing...

6 Jun 2026 2:12 PM IST

Book Review | K. Sundarji: Scholar-soldier And Mobile Warfare Proponent

Book Review | K. Sundarji: Scholar-soldier And Mobile Warfare...

Widely known as a forward thinking “scholar-warrior”, the ‘TamBram’ (Tamil Brahmin) Sundarji brought technology-driven,...

6 Jun 2026 1:14 PM IST

Top Ten Books of the Week (June 4, 2026)

Top Ten Books of the Week (June 4, 2026)

This week the readers showed interest in love stories, Constitution, family sagas, General Manoj Naravane's The Curious...

5 Jun 2026 9:41 PM IST

Book Review | A Parliamentarian’s Almanac Reveals the Government’s Warts

Book Review | A Parliamentarian’s Almanac Reveals the Government’s...

The government and media made the Opposition invisible. O’Brien draws back the curtain

30 May 2026 1:17 PM IST

Book Review | A Visual Archive of Mumbai Through Cuisine

Book Review | A Visual Archive of Mumbai Through Cuisine

There’s a certain visual language that lays out the mosaic of the chaotic beauty of Indian cities charms both local and...

30 May 2026 1:15 PM IST

Book Review | A Powerful Novel About Sisterly Love

Book Review | A Powerful Novel About Sisterly Love

No Such Thing as Monday is a powerful novel written with such charm that you don’t get lost in gloom despite the sadness

30 May 2026 1:13 PM IST

Book Review | The Horror Of War Through The Prism Of Sci-fi

Book Review | The Horror Of War Through The Prism Of Sci-fi

The war is fought amid literal fog on a largely monochromatic battlefield. The empire is grey; the enemy, white; deadly...

23 May 2026 10:59 PM IST