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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

Book Review | Is dialogue the key to firming our grasp on Indo-Pak ties?

Book Review | Is dialogue the key to firming our grasp on Indo-Pak...

The author has got together forty nine Indians and Pakistanis to pen their views on the subject

20 March 2022 12:07 AM IST

Cover image of the book Gangas Choice and Other Stories by Vaasanthi. (By Arrangement)

Book Review | How humanity redeems the individual

Many of the stories end on a note of satisfaction for the reader, as when retribution or karma catches up

13 March 2022 12:46 AM IST

Cover Image of the book India and Asian Geopolitics by Shivshankar Menon. (By arrangement)

Book Review | Sharp, broad and objective look at India's foreign...

Menon's book is about India in the context of Asian geopolitics, a most complex subject

6 March 2022 2:46 AM IST

Cover Image of Incantations over Water by Sharanya Manivannan. (By arrangement)

Book review | A mermaid's story told in poetic prose, with eye...

The story is told from the point of view of Ila, a half-woman, half-mermaid

6 March 2022 2:38 AM IST