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A scripture-quoting narrator with tongue firmly in cheek relates the story of a devious zamindar and moneylender in a village in Odisha. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | An Odia literary star's fine vignettes, wicked wit and...

While the book deals with dark subjects, the hand that writes it is beautifully light, and gives you many occasions to...

20 Jun 2021 12:30 AM IST

In his short, intense, sad but artistically fruitful life Guru Dutt managed to communicate with a large audience who paid to see his films and sustained his production company; an absolute necessity in commercial Hindi cinema. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | The eloquent outsider, lovingly remembered...

Guru Dutt had the rare ability of being loved and commanding the loyalty of those who came in contact with him

20 Jun 2021 12:20 AM IST

Salmans essay is not unsympathetic to the hijras and charts the structure of their social existence and pleads for some attention to the risks they face through HIV and AIDS. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | Fantasy beats autofiction, but magic realism' trounced...

Salman contends that publishing today favours the revealing, racially, sexually and culturally situated autobiography

20 Jun 2021 12:10 AM IST

The book comes with a list of questions for reading club discussions. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | Bookseller's love story in wartime Paris shows past is...

Fast paced, the book, though a work of fiction, has been well researched and with historical sources cited

6 Jun 2021 9:27 AM IST

This is clearly a book that needs to be read over an extended period of time. (Photo: Goodreads)

Book Review | Hobsbawm's choice: When logic rejects nationalism...

Britain's best-known historian, Eric Hobsbawm, traverses a similar path in his writings on Nationalism

6 Jun 2021 9:18 AM IST

The title of Ritwiks novel is a metaphor for our times. (Photo: Goodreads)

Book Review | An insider's view on elite publishing in Indian Right's...

The book gives us an opportunity to have an insider's view of the Indian publishing world

6 Jun 2021 9:11 AM IST

The author with his significant other. (Image by arrangement)

Covid orphans: Climber pitches in with book

Aditya Gupta is a Delhi-based entrepreneur, founder of The Rug Republic and a trained mountaineer

25 May 2021 3:01 PM IST

The book starts with a conversation with Sivaraman, an active researcher on the construction of mridangam. (Image: Amazon)

Book Review | Monograph studies tone of mridangam

Mridangam, also called Naadha Vadhiyam and king of percussion instruments, has evolved over centuries

23 May 2021 11:29 AM IST

The novel brings out the paradox that the Tamil Tigers. (Photo: Goodreads)

Book Review | War fiction, which resembles fact

The story of induction into Sri Lanka and coping up with the fears of mines is narrated through conversations

23 May 2021 11:27 AM IST

Chetak was another heroic horse who succumbed to his battle wounds. (Image: Goodreads)

Book Review | Warm, fuzzy resum©s of pets of royal heroes

In some cases, the bonds between pets and masters were so strong that even death could not separate them

23 May 2021 11:26 AM IST

Gandhi might have thought it was the universe whose position needed slight adjustment. (Image by arrangement)

Book Review | If only our netas read Gandhi, instead of making him a...

With Covid fatalities soaring, we can hardly dispute the Mahatma's opinion

23 May 2021 11:24 AM IST

What attracted attention, obviously, was his taking note of the upheaval caused by Mr Modis arrival in Delhi as Prime Minister, dealt with much panache in the first two chapters of the book under the attention-grabbing headings of Bombard The Headquarters and Modis Metaphors . DC Image

Book Review | A clinical view of the exit of Delhi durbar, not an...

Sanjay Baru's book analyses the changing complexion of India's diverse influence groups

9 May 2021 9:53 AM IST