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Making India Great Again: Learning from Our History By Meeta and Rajivlochan. (Amazon)

Did careless governance plus bad work ethic cause India's economic...

The opening pages of the book argue that India was always rich. Certainly it was

9 Jan 2022 1:34 AM IST

I Adore Jai The Rediscovery of M.L. Jaisimha by Jayanthi Jaisimha. (Amazon)

Tales of The Lion': How Jaisimha thrilled, spilled and swashbuckled

Our cricketing icons of that period turned out in sparkling whites for India, not for pelf or power but for the sheer...

9 Jan 2022 1:32 AM IST

Crafting a Future: Stories of Indian Textiles and Sustainable Practices By Archana Shah. (Amazon)

Book review | Scholarly tribute to our artisans and their textiles

The section on fashion links the relevance of the hand crafted tradition to environmental concerns and sustainability

2 Jan 2022 11:50 AM IST

over image of Robert Jordans book The Eye of the World: Wheel of Time.

Book Review | Robert Jordan's pen is mightier than camera

Hachette India republished the book to coincide with streaming of the original series The Wheel of Time on Prime Video

2 Jan 2022 2:45 AM IST

Cover Image of Rupa and Gautam Gupts book Forgotten Civilisations: The Rediscovery of Indias Lost History. (Twitter)

Book Review | Raising a toast to 15 British men who parted veil of...

The first British who came to rule India were men of the Enlightenment with an intense curiosity

2 Jan 2022 2:29 AM IST

Cover Image od Maurice Leblancs book Arsene Lupin Gentleman Burglar (Twitter)

Book Review | Arsene Lupin versus Sherlock Holmes

The history of Lupin has an uncanny similarity with that of Sherlock Holmes in the sense the character assumed a much...

26 Dec 2021 1:46 AM IST

Cover Image of Iqbal Chand Malhotras book Red Fear: The China Threat. (Twitter)

Book Review | Communists & ultranationalists: China, India fell out 6...

Having learnt the lessons of history better than India, China bided its time and positioned itself to humiliate India...

26 Dec 2021 1:38 AM IST

Cover image of Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussains work Nehru: The Debates that Defined India

Book Review | Account of Nehru's vision well compiled, deficiently...

In the Introduction, the author-compilers say Nehru's vaulting vision was in practice tempered by the 'more mundane...

26 Dec 2021 1:21 AM IST

Cover image of Missed Translations (Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me) by Sopan Deb.

Book Review | Raw, dark, tender exploration of ties that bind families...

The book is raw, dark, and, surprisingly tender

19 Dec 2021 2:31 AM IST

Cover image of Modis India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot.

Book review | The true colour of Modi's majoritarianism

Modi's pro-poor, anti-establishmentarian populism did not really translate into pro-poor policies or help the poor to...

19 Dec 2021 1:51 AM IST

The Ambassador and the Private Eye By Krishnan Srinivasan.

Book Review | Somali ex-diplomat, one-armed ex-cop team up in cerebral...

The novel plays out in a sequence of episodic chapters, each dealing with a separate case

18 Dec 2021 6:58 PM IST

An old news photograph published during the 1971 war (Photo by arrangement)

How China compromised its socialist ideals and cozied up to America in...

China was the first major power to make a move by openly warning India

13 Dec 2021 7:35 AM IST