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Cover Image of the book Two and a Half Rivers by Anirudh Kala.

Book Review | Brevity and black humour soul of poignant tale set in...

That said, the state of Punjab as a whole, has been witness to a lot of violence, and change

13 Feb 2022 1:50 AM IST

Cover Image of the book Stolen Focus by Johann Hari.

Book Review | Attention! Big Tech is conspiring to purloin it and make...

One of the features that makes the book valuable is that it has been exhaustively and excellently researched

13 Feb 2022 1:34 AM IST

Cover Image of the book The Tombstone in my Garde by Temsula Ao.

Book Review | Fiction from Nagaland that is spare, elegant and...

The story is as disturbing as the schisms in Naga society

6 Feb 2022 2:57 AM IST

Cover Image of the book The Rise of the BJP: The Making of the Worlds Largest Political Party by Bhupender Yadav and Ila Patnaik.

Book Review | Visceral leadership: A racy, insightful biography of BJP

The authors have resisted the temptation to delve into any single personality, historic incident or theory at too much...

6 Feb 2022 2:47 AM IST

Cover image of the book Meerans Stories writter by Thoppil Mohamed Meeran, translated by Prabha Sridevan.

Book Review | Meeran's stories are the tales of a forgotten people

Written originally in Tamil, the Sahitya Akademi Award winner, Meeran's Stories are translated into English by Prabha...

6 Feb 2022 2:14 AM IST

The Happiness Trail A Road Map to Success By Ramesh Venkateswaran. (Amazon)

Book Review | For young souls trapped on the hedonic treadmill

At the outset, Ramesh tells us that his book is not prescriptive or preachy nor is it a compass with a clear direction

29 Jan 2022 6:48 PM IST

A Sacred Journey: The Kedara Kalpa Series of Pahari paintings & the Painter Purkhu of Kangra By B.N. Goswamy and Karuna Goswamy. (Amazon)

Book Review | A family of talented Pahari painters memorialised

The book is not merely about the paintings, (painted between 1800-1825 in Guler, or Kangra) but equally about the text...

29 Jan 2022 6:46 PM IST

Bengal and Its Partition: An Untold Story By Bhaswati Mukherjee. (Amazon)

Book Review | The many unknown acts of the great Bengal tragedy

Mughals grabbed resources and richer land in the form of eastern Bengal and converted its residents into their own faith

29 Jan 2022 6:44 PM IST

The Braided River: A Journey along the Brahmaputra By Samrat Choudhury. (Amazon Photo)

Chronicle of a great river, its peoples, conflicts and myriad stories

Is The Braided River' a travelogue, a personal pilgrimage, a historical search for origins and beginnings or a political...

22 Jan 2022 6:47 PM IST

A Red-necked Green Bird By Ambai. (Amazon Photo)

A telling account of how real women feel, imperfectly rendered in...

The slim volume is valuable in that it draws readers into the world of Tamil writing of which they would otherwise be...

22 Jan 2022 6:45 PM IST

Bangladesh War: Report from Ground Zero By Manash Ghosh. (Amazon Photo)

A ringside view of how a new nation was born amid flames

It is not always that a journalist gets a chance to be part of history in the making

22 Jan 2022 6:43 PM IST

Madam Prime Minister By Seema Goswami. (Amazon)

Unputdownable political thriller that is funny & all too familiar

Madam Prime Minister is a racy novel with political games, scandals, and a bit of romance thrown in

9 Jan 2022 1:36 AM IST