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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

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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

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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 ArrangementBooks
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

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Book Review | Sympathetic detective, lame whodunit

It's only towards the fag end of the book that the author remembers he promised us a serial killer, and gets his act...

17 March 2024 12:54 PM IST

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Book review | A writer's diary is a repository of ideas

One thread that runs through Kumar's Yellow Book is the pandemic

9 March 2024 8:49 PM IST

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Book review | Edge-of-seat thriller on an Indo-Pak showdown

Written in a simple style, with some Urdu sprinkled here and there, makes the book a good read

9 March 2024 8:40 PM IST

Laurent Daudet and AppupenBooks
AI cannot imagine something new and original that can have impact...

The threat of AI-driven job loss and corporate takeover of the world is more real than we anticipated

9 March 2024 2:19 PM IST

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Book Review | When the fiction is so gratifying, can journalism be...

They expose systematically love jiihad, population jihad and Muslim appeasement with facts and figures

9 March 2024 2:15 PM IST

Book Review | Textbook on government foreign policy, not juicy thesis on BharatBooks
Book Review | Textbook on government foreign policy, not juicy thesis...

Foreign Minister Jaishankar's insightful analysis of India's global standing, though dense, sheds light on the nation's...

3 March 2024 12:00 AM IST

When I (Kai Bird) finished high school and went off to college, I thought I might want to be a lawyer. By ArrangementBooks
In Facebook, there are no footnotes: Kai Bird

It's a terrific thing to win the Pulitzer and it is the only award in America that actually helps to sell books

2 March 2024 5:16 PM IST

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