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Cover photo of The Cook by Ajay Chowdhury. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Kolkata ex-cop in Brick Lane finds redemption

The knottiness of the plot and the swelling, sustained suspense alone are worth the price of admission.

14 May 2023 12:17 AM IST

Cover photo of Here and Hereafter: Nirmal Vermas Life in Literature by Vineet Gill. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | An insightful biography of a Hindi thought pioneer

The book is both an inner quest and a critical history.

7 May 2023 1:07 AM IST

Cover photo of When Ardh Satya Met Himmatwala by Avijit Ghosh. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | 1980s: The decade of kitsch and melodrama in Bollywood...

The author of this engrossing book was in college at that time and cinema was his passion.

7 May 2023 1:03 AM IST

Cover photo of The Portrait of a Secret by Tarun Mehrishi. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Too many frivolous details spoil a cleverly...

Mehrishi does a good job of bringing all the strands of the story together at the end, and throws in a bonus surprise as...

7 May 2023 1:00 AM IST

Cover photo of Grief Growth Grace by Neena Verma. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Rising beyond personal losses

The three-part book invites you to discover each of the three entwined phenomena of grief, growth and grace.

6 May 2023 12:36 AM IST

Book Review | Entrepreneur couple promotes physical literacy in picture book

Book Review | Entrepreneur couple promotes physical literacy in...

The book is on Toori Mamas' path to fitness and the invaluable lessons he learns in this journey.

6 May 2023 12:15 AM IST

Cover photo of Made in India by Amitabh Kant. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | A groundbreaking history of Indian public policy &...

The world of startups focusses on India's major achievements: The launching of over 65,000 startups with multifold...

30 April 2023 12:57 AM IST

Cover photo of The Pashtuns: A Contested History by Tilak Devasher. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Pashtuns: One race, two nations; a bloody present but...

The book brings the reader up to date on the developments related to the Pashtuns both in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

30 April 2023 12:49 AM IST

Cover photo of Moms in the Wild by Nidhi Raichand. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | The cut-throat world of momfluencers

Raichand has taken a contemporary theme, that of the fiercely competitive world of social media influencers, and weaved...

30 April 2023 12:15 AM IST

Cover photo of Azaad: An Autobiography by Ghulam Nabi Azad. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | None too comfortable revelations from a Congress Party...

In Azad's telling he and Sonia Gandhi had a great working equation.

23 April 2023 12:51 AM IST

Cover photo of The Laughter by Sonora Jha. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Culture wars (in a US varsity) and the price of clarity

10 days after I closed the book, I still feel as though it ran me over with a lorry.

23 April 2023 12:47 AM IST

Cover photo of The Inexact Room by Salil Chaturvedi. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Surrealistic pieces crafted inexactly

Against this predictability and contrivance stand the occasional rhythm to the words, the touches of whimsy, a few...

23 April 2023 12:01 AM IST