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Book Review | When Valour No More a Prerequisite to Win Wars

Book Review | When Valour No More a Prerequisite to Win Wars

While so far, there is no World War III declared, the number of wars and conflicts currently on only prove how much more...

11 Oct 2025 1:44 PM IST

Book Review | Journalist Solves Murder, Exposes State of World

Book Review | Journalist Solves Murder, Exposes State of World

Universality was on the Booker long list this year. Its one failing is that it’s a little too British

11 Oct 2025 1:42 PM IST

Book Review | Thinking Through the World by Night Train

Book Review | Thinking Through the World by Night Train

Monisha Rajesh, a British journalist who, in 2023, was named in Conde Nast Traveller’s ‘Women Who Travel Power List’,...

4 Oct 2025 1:10 PM IST

Book Review | Vajpayee the Moderate, Who Yielded to Pressures

Book Review | Vajpayee the Moderate, Who Yielded to Pressures

It is surprising that both Vajpayee and Advani were reluctant to walk out of Janata Party even after the fall of the...

4 Oct 2025 1:08 PM IST

Book Review | An All-too-Familiar Loneliness?

Book Review | An All-too-Familiar Loneliness?

The delicacy of observation and lightness of prose on offer here makes for pleasant reading, but often resembles the...

4 Oct 2025 1:06 PM IST

Book Review | Can Left Rise Again? A Saucy View

Book Review | Can Left Rise Again? A Saucy View

The book and its author do keep the flag flying for those who believe the world should be a far more just and equitable...

27 Sept 2025 1:44 PM IST

Book Review | Too Much Solipsism Spoils the Memoir

Book Review | Too Much Solipsism Spoils the Memoir

It would have been nice if this memoir was only about her relationship with Rayya, who was an extremely colourful...

27 Sept 2025 1:42 PM IST

Book Review | Road Trip Novel Dissects a Marriage

Book Review | Road Trip Novel Dissects a Marriage

Markovits’ writing brings out best of all the narrator’s character

27 Sept 2025 1:40 PM IST

Book Review | How Did AAP Lose Its Mojo?

Book Review | How Did AAP Lose Its Mojo?

: Kejriwal's experiment with soft Hindutva failed to take root. “Despite calibrated attempts to appropriate religious...

20 Sept 2025 3:53 PM IST

Book Review | The Other Bleak House

Book Review | The Other Bleak House

It is a bleak setting, but the slow-paced engagement with memories, slipping identities and metaphors is presented by...

20 Sept 2025 3:19 PM IST

Book Review | Inside The Mind Of A Taciturn Man

Book Review | Inside The Mind Of A Taciturn Man

Though this his sparest work yet, there is a miraculous ease, a literary sleight-of-hand, with which the author...

20 Sept 2025 3:07 PM IST

Book Review | Snake Mythologies From Around The World

Book Review | Snake Mythologies From Around The World

The book is a formidable exploration of the practice of ophiolatry (the worship of serpents), myths and symbols ranging...

13 Sept 2025 4:45 PM IST