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A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness. (Image AA)

Unpacking the modern family, its ambitions and uncertainties

A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness is his second literary endeavour

17 Sept 2023 6:38 PM IST

Who Cares About Parliament by Derek OBrien. (Image: AA)

An insider critiques the Indian parliament

The subjects under discussion here can make for a useful handbook

17 Sept 2023 12:00 AM IST

Woke, Inc.: Inside the Social Justice Scam by Vivek Ramaswamy. (Image: AA)

Is the woke-industrial complex anti-merit and detrimental to growth?

Once corporations discovered wokeness, the inevitable happened: they used it to make money

17 Sept 2023 12:00 AM IST

The Launch Party. (Image: AA)

Silly, badly hatched murder mystery on the moon

As the guests get to know each other on the journey

9 Sept 2023 6:16 PM IST

Arvind Krishna Mehrotras Book of Rahim & Other Poems (Westland Books 2023) is an invocation of literary icons Rahim and Ghalib coupled with the precise juxtaposition of personal memories. (Image: DC)

Walking the lanes of personal history in Rahim's shoes

A review of Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's latest collection

9 Sept 2023 5:56 PM IST

She faces an assassination attempt outside her home in Bangalore a week after demonetisation when people are still dying in bank queues, waiting to get their money. (Image: DC)

Racy Tribute to Gauri Lankesh Has Heart in the Right Place

The police had said that they suspected it was a cut-out assassination attempt

9 Sept 2023 5:37 PM IST

THE HEAVEN AND EARTH GROCERY STORE BY JAMES MCBRIDE. (Image: AA)

A mesmerizing Grocery store

A heartwarming story that spills with outrage, kindness, fear, compassion, and community spirit

6 Sept 2023 12:00 AM IST

A cigar-smoking monk, Vivekananda broke with stereotype. Well-versed in music and a polyglot, he was physically strong and good at various sports. (Image: DC)

Vivekananda's Hinduism valued human agency, rejected doxa

Vivekananda was outspoken regarding his thoughts on notions of purity

3 Sept 2023 9:13 AM IST

These four women are clearly invisible in Paris and unaware of each others existence. Then comes Covid-19, bringing the entire world to a halt and turning everyones life topsy-turvy. A series of mishaps or call it the hand of destiny and the four womens lives, too, are affected. (Image: DC)

Four lonely female immigrants struggle in Paris

Seventeen-year old Russian model Dasha dreams of walking the ramp for the biggest fashion moguls

3 Sept 2023 9:08 AM IST

There was no eureka moment in the chapter titled Manipurs Princes and Rebels: Assimilating and Separating Through the Ages . (Image: DC)

Chronicling Partition's impact east of Bangla, N-E othering'

Northeast India: Political History, the book, could not have come at a better time.

3 Sept 2023 9:04 AM IST

The long list of Indias most prestigious literature prize has been announced. (Photo: Twitter)

JCB Prize for Literature: Debut Novelists and Translations Shine in...

Four translations, three debut novels, ten dynamic, original, and trailblazing voices.

2 Sept 2023 11:10 PM IST

Cover photo of Memoirs of a Maverick: The First Fifty Years by Mani Shankar Aiyar. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Excerpt | Aiyar's pink curiosities very nearly cost him his...

Excerpt from Mani Shankar Aiyar's 'Memoirs of a Maverick'

27 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST