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Book Review | Social Realism From a Place That Time Forgot

Book Review | Social Realism From a Place That Time Forgot

Parallel dark strands of caste discrimination and bureaucratic indifference run through the stories

19 July 2025 1:38 PM IST

Book Review | Vignettes from Jeet Thayil’s Rollercoaster Life

Book Review | Vignettes from Jeet Thayil’s Rollercoaster Life

This is Jeet Thayil’s story about his own life, his parents, cousins and uncles, his native place

19 July 2025 1:36 PM IST

Book Review | How Indian State Failed Kashmiris

Book Review | How Indian State Failed Kashmiris

Overall, the discussion in the book is about the failure of the Indian state as a deliberate enterprise, not just on...

12 July 2025 1:01 PM IST

Book Review | Of X-rays, CT & Tragedy at AIIMS

Book Review | Of X-rays, CT & Tragedy at AIIMS

You would not get a better account of the hours that Indira Gandhi’s body remained at AIIMS before it was shifted to...

12 July 2025 12:59 PM IST

Book Review | Story of a Gun and a Boy Forced to Grow Up Quickly

Book Review | Story of a Gun and a Boy Forced to Grow Up Quickly

The narrative is packed with action and keeps the reader engaged. The plot moves through towns, gangs, families,...

12 July 2025 12:58 PM IST

Book Review | Before India Almost Became A Badminton Superpower

Book Review | Before India Almost Became A Badminton Superpower

Net Flicks, authored by the father-son duo of Vijay and Akshay Lokapally, attempts to set the record straight, detailing...

6 July 2025 1:15 PM IST

Book Review | Gen. Shrinagesh Moved Tanks To Zoji La Pass

Book Review | Gen. Shrinagesh Moved Tanks To Zoji La Pass

Among the earliest batches of Indians to be nominated for the Sandhurst Military Academy, UK, he won the Quetta Cup for...

6 July 2025 1:07 PM IST

Book Review | Mujib Didn’t Know Foe From Friend

Book Review | Mujib Didn’t Know Foe From Friend

Mujib’s tragic flaw, Ghosh writes, was his inability to distinguish between true comrades and opportunists

6 July 2025 1:00 PM IST

Book Review | When Remembrance Is Both Relief And A Trauma

Book Review | When Remembrance Is Both Relief And A Trauma

Before long, we gather that the police have evidence of her involvement in gory Maoist killings. They interrogate her,...

6 July 2025 10:25 AM IST

Book Review | The Honourable Nehru-Matthai Clash

Book Review | The Honourable Nehru-Matthai Clash

Dadabhoy avoids the trap of the anti-Nehru flavour by showing Matthai as the victim of Nehru’s high handedness. He...

6 July 2025 10:18 AM IST

Book Review | In ‘Songs’ Of City, An Unequal Music

Book Review | In ‘Songs’ Of City, An Unequal Music

The best stories in the collection arrive at the very end, as if the writer were warming up with every passing effort

6 July 2025 10:06 AM IST

Book Review | When Remembrance Is Both Relief And A Trauma

Book Review | When Remembrance Is Both Relief And A Trauma

Before long, we gather that the police have evidence of her involvement in gory Maoist killings

28 Jun 2025 4:19 PM IST