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Cover Image of the book A Dust Storm in Delhi by Meena Arora Nayak. (By Arrangement)

Book Review | A Sultan who made schoolgirls proud

Meena Arora Nayak has added flesh, bones, and a magnetic personality to Sultan Razziat in this enthralling work of...

17 April 2022 12:31 AM IST

Cover Image of the book Shes Unlikeable And Other Lies That Bring Women Down by Aparna Shewakramani. (By Arrangement)

Book Excerpt | Isn't audience to blame for consuming lies spread on...

I did have my voice and an ability to share my version of reality with the media and on my own social media platforms

17 April 2022 12:10 AM IST

Cover image of Hawk and Hyena: What Really Happened to the Serpent by Farrukh Dhondy. (Twitter)

Book Review | A colourful, noir biography of first celebrity criminal...

Many among today's younger generation would not even have heard of the man

10 April 2022 12:37 AM IST

Cover Image of Scenography: An Indian Perspective by Satyabrata Rout. (Twitter)

Book Review | Indian theatre's silent but astonishing contribution to...

It will interest the reader to find out about the various kinds of stages, meant to be chosen as per acoustics and...

10 April 2022 12:31 AM IST

over image of the book Vultures by Dalpat Chauhan. (Twitter)

Book Review | Unflinching look at custom and caste

Never has a book affected me as much as Vultures did

10 April 2022 12:15 AM IST

Cover Image of the book Let Me Hijack Your Mind by Alyque Padamsee and Vandana Saxena Poria. (By Arrangement)

Book Review | Here are Alyque Padamsee's thoughts on the New Joint...

It's a joint responsibility to create a joint family, says Alyque Padamsee

3 April 2022 12:55 AM IST

Cover image of the book Best Intentions by Simran Dhir. (By Arrangement)

Book Review | Boy meets girl in elite New India

Best Intentions is a fairly realistic and witty depiction of contemporary upper-class urban India

3 April 2022 12:24 AM IST

Cover Image of the book Life and Political Reality: Two Novellas by Shahidul Zahir. (By Arrangement)

Book Review | Sketches from Bangladesh on the slow death of ideals

Shahidul Zahir tells of the horrors that came before the creation of Bangladesh and of why their shadows will never...

3 April 2022 12:05 AM IST

Cover Image of the book Chinese Geopolitics In the 21st Century: A Post-Pandemic Perspective by Brig. Anand Tewari (Retd). (Twitter)

Book Review | China's geopolitical risks are more in southeast than...

The book tries to formulate well-researched geopolitical imperatives for China and predicts Chinese responses

27 March 2022 12:40 AM IST

Cover Image of the book Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah. (Twitter)

Book Review | Secrets of colonialism and exile from the dark heart of...

Reading Gurnah is a bit like watching a Ray film rather than a Kurosawa or Ghatak

27 March 2022 12:20 AM IST

Book Review | A spices violent trajectory begs us, do not other nature, old societies

Book Review | A spice's violent trajectory begs us, do not other'...

What happens when you get to the last page of a book feeling a bit confused and intrigued?

20 March 2022 12:14 AM IST

Book Review | Joy, heartbreak, anger: What women write

Book Review | Joy, heartbreak, anger: What women write

In a model case scenario, there should be no reason to have a separate category of women's fiction other than to amplify...

20 March 2022 12:11 AM IST