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Book Review | The '30s-born Bihari man's best life

Book Review | The '30s-born Bihari man's best life

13 July 2024 5:27 PM IST

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Book Review | Rebirth of a classic on Indian coal town

The prose is fluid and inviting, as it keeps the reader hooked to the seemingly ordinary life of the characters

6 July 2024 12:20 PM IST

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Book Review | Train of nostalgia to '60s Bombay

One story stands out as obvious fiction: it's about a young British lady who visits India to marry a wealthy British man

6 July 2024 12:13 PM IST

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Book Review | A witty biography of the most popular human body part

The English language boasts over 700 terms for the breasts most of them coined by men

6 July 2024 12:09 PM IST

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Book Review | Apocalypse when, asks this brief history of superbugs

A must-read, and not only for science buffs

29 Jun 2024 1:04 PM IST

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Book Review | How the MEA was knocked together

The book's range and recounting of many little-known diplomatic episodes make it an interesting and educative read

29 Jun 2024 12:58 PM IST

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Book Review | How to secretly woo your bestie!

To me, The Remains of the Body is an intriguing work. While the story centres on love, there's no romance in it at all

29 Jun 2024 12:36 PM IST

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Book Review | How to navigate a mixed-race identity

Jassa Ahluwalia, clearly, has not just sat around wanting to be accepted, but has read books and met people, and...

22 Jun 2024 12:30 PM IST

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Book Review | Patriots who were friends too

Independence. At the centre of the circle was perhaps the most modern woman in India of those times Sarojini Naidu

22 Jun 2024 12:10 PM IST

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Book Review | Armchair economics! This room is all elephant

The book's omissions are glaring, leaving critical gaps in its analysis of India's economic landscape

22 Jun 2024 11:52 AM IST

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Book Review | Of Feluda, dry days': A whimsical look, but serious too

Though the slim volume is thick with cultural cross-references, it is the pop culture stardust of Bengal, Hazra's...

15 Jun 2024 12:59 PM IST

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Book Review | The voice of the Nepali American

Ranjan Adiga, both as a writer and as a Nepali-American, has always been fairly vocal about the contemporary issues...

15 Jun 2024 12:25 PM IST

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