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Things didnt change after I joined Nowrosjee Wadia College in Pune. The students too had never heard of the battle of Rezang La.

Book Review | Why I decided to pen down the story of Rezang La

In 2018, when the thought occurred to me about writing a book on the Rezang La battle, it came to me as an epiphany

16 Sept 2021 1:06 AM IST

The poem, Light of Asia, by Edwn Arnold has a curious life and journey of its own.

Ambedkar's Buddha inspires me more than Gandhi's: Jairam Ramesh

I connect more with Ambedkar's social revolutionary Buddha than Gandhi's spiritual teacher, says Jairam Ramesh

13 Sept 2021 6:47 PM IST

On December 16, 1971, 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered to the Indian Army in the newly liberated Bangladesh. (Image: Amazon)

Book Review | Rare and inspiring accounts from the 1971 war theatres

A serious drawback for India is that for over 74 years since its independence, its actual history has not been taught in...

12 Sept 2021 2:32 AM IST

Since Dhondys title Fragments Against My Ruin, taken from The Waste Land, has been interpreted in many ways, one cant be sure of his precise meaning. (Image: Amazon)

Book Review | An immigrant's progress and other scoops from Old...

Did Ronald Reagan really think after seeing Attenborough's film that Indira Gandhi was the Mahatma's daughter?

12 Sept 2021 2:30 AM IST

In a short story, where each word should move the story further, Potkar uses compression, striking a fine balance between what is revealed and what is concealed. (Image: Amazon)

Book Review | Smell the spirit of Bombay in the margins of these...

Potkar's book with its exquisite use of catalogue, language that soothes and stabs, and sharp observations, is a...

12 Sept 2021 1:28 AM IST

Cover Page of China Room by Sunjeev Sahota. (Twitter)

Book Review | When memory refracts into gripping fiction

It is the story of a 15-year-old bride in 1929 and her 18-year-old great grandson

29 Aug 2021 1:43 AM IST

Cover Page of The Illuminated by Anindita Ghose.

Book Review | Finely rendered study of grief offset by predictable...

The narrative deliciously dips into different times in the characters' lives, never disrupting the flow

29 Aug 2021 1:27 AM IST

Cover Page of One Love, and the Many Lives of Osip B by C.P. Surendran . (Twitter)

Book Review | Trippy reverie on Stalinism, sexism, Delhi and death of...

It is also an account of how group rights come to impinge on individual freedoms

29 Aug 2021 1:08 AM IST

Warning: Be prepared to laugh and cry. Cover Image of The Eminently Forgettable Life of Mrs Pankajam by Meera Rajagopalan. (Twitter)

Book review | Unbearable old secrets from a desi mom's diary

While real life diaries are fascinating, fictional diaries can be just as engrossing

15 Aug 2021 2:52 AM IST

The other towering structures yet to cast their shadow on the tree lined avenues of the capital or blight the spotless face of Connaught Place. (Twitter)

Book review | Spirit wins in this fine portrait of the capital in more...

Today the changing power equations and the social churning have thrown up a new elite

15 Aug 2021 2:25 AM IST

Rasheed Kidwais meticulously researched book The House of Scindias A Saga of Power, Politics and Intrigue weaves a fascinating tale providing both anecdotes and insights that revived memories of that fateful last meeting with Madhavrao. (Twitter)

Book review | A full and impartial political biography of Gwalior's...

Kidwai is not afraid to write on the dubious role played by the Royal House of Gwalior during the 1857 Sepoy Mutiny

15 Aug 2021 1:36 AM IST

Following the tenure of Indias first Defence Minister, Baldev Singh, from September 1946 till May1952, there was no full-time cabinet rank defence minister till April 1957. (Image: Amazon)

Book Review | Achievements in India's defence research despite many...

The Defence Science Organisation was formed in 1956 for initiating studies and development of futuristic weapon systems

1 Aug 2021 2:11 AM IST