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Book Review | Professor Expounds on the Gift of Gaffes

Book Review | Professor Expounds on the Gift of Gaffes

The 150 pages, half of which are comic illustrations by Gwen Grafft depicting the author in sticky situations, take you...

27 Jun 2026 1:13 PM IST

Book Review | Officers in Kerala’s Service

Book Review | Officers in Kerala’s Service

This book talks about the role of public policy and administration in Kerala while suggesting changes and the agency...

27 Jun 2026 1:10 PM IST

Top Ten Books Of The Week (June 24, 2026)

Top Ten Books Of The Week (June 24, 2026)

This week, books on love, marriage and strife-torn Tehran, a travelogue on Taiwan, Japanese corporate culture, history...

26 Jun 2026 5:40 PM IST

Book Review | A Clear Recall of a ‘Many-Splendored Life’

Book Review | A Clear Recall of a ‘Many-Splendored Life’

The book is not a look back at history scholarship in India. It is about the joys and passing sorrows of Thapar’s life

20 Jun 2026 1:21 PM IST

Book Review | Anecdotes for Army Buffs

Book Review | Anecdotes for Army Buffs

The book consists of 25 chapters bunched into six sections, beginning with one on uniforms and going on to the...

20 Jun 2026 1:20 PM IST

Book Review | A Story of Food, Friendship and Colonialism in Taiwan

Book Review | A Story of Food, Friendship and Colonialism in Taiwan

This engrossing and delicious story has many layers, and does equal justice to a travelogue and a novel

20 Jun 2026 1:18 PM IST

Top Ten Books Of The Week (June 18, 2026)

Top Ten Books Of The Week (June 18, 2026)

Books open a new window to the world. This week, book readers showed interest in Constitution, Booksellers and Football...

19 Jun 2026 5:03 PM IST

Book Review | A Short Primer on Advaita

Book Review | A Short Primer on Advaita

A thought-provoking philosophical novel that challenges orthodox notions of celibacy, love and spiritual fulfilment,...

14 Jun 2026 1:19 PM IST

Book Review | A Portrait of Society in Mughal Times

Book Review | A Portrait of Society in Mughal Times

A richly researched exploration of Mughal India that reveals how trade, merchants and markets shaped imperial power,...

14 Jun 2026 1:16 PM IST

Book Review | Deathbed Vigil Still Leaves Key Questions Unasked

Book Review | Deathbed Vigil Still Leaves Key Questions Unasked

George Saunders revisits themes of death, memory and redemption in a darkly comic afterlife tale, but its moral inquiry...

14 Jun 2026 1:14 PM IST

Book Review | Surrealist Fiction Can Be Humorous

Book Review | Surrealist Fiction Can Be Humorous

The story, about the effect of the arrival of a vacuum cleaner salesman on the people of a small town, was not just...

6 Jun 2026 2:26 PM IST

Book Review | Christ As A Buddhist Monk?

Book Review | Christ As A Buddhist Monk?

Fr. Dara travels to Cambridge to meet Banko, tasked with translating the manuscript. Dhondy adds an intriguing...

6 Jun 2026 2:12 PM IST