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Cover photo of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav: India@75 edited by Surendra Kumar (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | India@75: Talking heads take stock, list challenges

Book Review of 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav: India@75' edited by Surendra Kumar

27 Nov 2022 1:42 AM IST

Cover photo of Black River by Nilanjana S. Roy (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | The soul of a river, poured into saga of fatherhood and...

Roy's success lies in the fact that it is actually comforting to read her work not just for the clarity but also the...

20 Nov 2022 1:40 AM IST

Cover photo of The Education of Yuri by Jerry Pinto (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Quasi-autobiographical & sanitised trip back to 1980s'...

There's a disquieting view of the country's education system, as Yuri discovers in preparing for the tuitions that...

20 Nov 2022 1:38 AM IST

Cover Photo of Rethink Ageing: Lessons in Ageing from the Older and Bolder Generation by Reshmi Chakraborty and Nidhi Chawla (Photo: By arrangement)

Book Review | Who's afraid of growing old?

The book, strangely, given my pessimism about ageing, made me smile

20 Nov 2022 1:35 AM IST

Cover photo of The War Diary of Asha-San by Lt Bharati Asha Sahay Choudhry (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Diary of 17-yr-old girl of Netaji's INA evokes Bengal's...

Review of 'The War Diary of Asha-San' by Lt Bharati Asha' Sahay Choudhry

13 Nov 2022 1:30 AM IST

Cover photo of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Narrating the Lankan experience in guise of a...

Review of 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida' by Shehan Karunatilaka

13 Nov 2022 1:27 AM IST

Cover photo of Ambedkar: A Life by Shashi Tharoor (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Was Ambedkar Gandhi's best critic or worst?

Review of 'Ambedkar: A Life by Shashi Tharoor'

6 Nov 2022 1:58 AM IST

Cover photo of Between You, Me and the Four Walls by Moni Mohsin (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | A frothy retelling of the journey of Pak & the world in...

Review of 'Between You, Me and the Four Walls' by Moni Mohsin

6 Nov 2022 1:55 AM IST

Cover photo of Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India by Ipshita Nath (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | The Memsahib among Indians, her burden' and her doubts

Book Review of 'Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India' by Ipshita Nath

6 Nov 2022 1:52 AM IST

Cover photo of The Bellboy by Anees Salim (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | When innocence meets adversity and cliques clash with...

Review of 'The Bellboy' by Anees Salim

30 Oct 2022 1:39 AM IST

Cover photo of Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene by Nayanika Mathur (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Climate change and evolution of the crooked' cat

Review of 'Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene' by Nayanika Mathur

30 Oct 2022 1:37 AM IST

Cover photo of Dangerous Pursuits by Suniti Namjoshi (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Fables study climate, capital and the flawed beauty of...

Dangerous Pursuits demonstrates the writer's depth of thought and breadth of skill. We float effortlessly from satire...

23 Oct 2022 1:36 AM IST