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Mita Kapur: I followed my instincts

It is as literary director for the prestigious JCB Prize for Literature that Mita has built herself a lasting legacy

13 April 2024 2:47 PM IST

Cover page of Toward A Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India

Book Review | Writing India's own history of libertarian economic...

This is a book of economic and social history which shows future possibilities

6 April 2024 2:55 PM IST

Cover page of Mahmud and Ayaz

Book Review | The importance of being an earnestly-radicalised, young...

We see two sides of Mahmud throughout the book

6 April 2024 2:50 PM IST

Cover page of 11 Rules for Life: Secrets to Level Up

Book Review | Anatomy of an Indian self-help guide

Chetan Bhagat knows his audience well and has catered to their needs quite flawlessly for over a decade now

6 April 2024 2:45 PM IST

Book Excerpt | How Telugu films celebrate folk heroes and NTR created Bobbili sub-genre

Book Excerpt | How Telugu films celebrate folk heroes and NTR created...

Folk stories are also where Telugu cinema draws its method of exaggerated emotions from.

31 March 2024 12:05 AM IST

$Cover Photo \Namita Gokhale Never Never Land\$ Books

Book Review | Nature the teacher in land of renunciation

The book is many-layered as it moves between the past and the present. Memory and its sister recollection imbue the...

30 March 2024 11:05 PM IST

$Cover Photo of \The Fall of Kabul Despatches From Chos$ Books

Book Review | Nayanima's testimony of Kabul's fall has a few what-ifs,...

Two days before Kabul fell to the Taliban the journalist proposed to write a despatch predicting its imminent takeover

30 March 2024 9:27 PM IST

Cover image of Cant

Book Review | An old woman's odd quest to find her co-wives

Antony's prose is so lyrical that it can be set to music

23 March 2024 1:44 PM IST

Cover image of The Idea of Democracy

Exactly how do we bring in selfless leaders, redraft democracy?

In effect, what democracy and democratic institutions require is periodic review, reflection, audit and redesign

23 March 2024 1:42 PM IST

Cover image of Crosswinds: Nehru, Zhou and the Anglo-American Competition over China

Book Review | At waltz of Dragon, Elephant, Lion, Eagle, Nehru's...

On the whole, the book offers us a reminder that the present may be equally difficult to weather as the storms over...

23 March 2024 1:38 PM IST

This is also a story of a friendship which has its beginnings in St Stephens College. Rukun was two years senior to Ram and much feared for his erudition and his love for Western classical music. By Arrangement

Book Review | Editor's honesty forges unlikely friendship in world of...

His first book, The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya, launched Guha's literary...

18 March 2024 12:27 AM IST

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Book Review | Scientist plays God in laboured science fiction

The writing is patchy: It's good most of the way, though often self-indulgent, sometimes turgid, and occasionally just...

17 March 2024 1:06 PM IST