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Structurally, too, Ameeras circumstances feel temporary compared to Feroza Begums lifelong entrapment; the latter is better synchronised with Lalarukhs adventures. DC ImageBooks
Book Review | The grandeur and myriad horrors of a Begum's dastaan

Restless Ameera implores her dadi to tell stories about Feroza Begum, whose own restlessness had ruined her life

9 May 2021 9:52 AM IST

Patil is an idealist, a person who quit a well-paying information technology job to help save the world but her ideas of the things that constitute field research and conservation are similar to the ideas of bureaucrats and men with moustaches only in the most superficial way. DC ImageBooks
Book Review | Laugh and also ponder what patriarchy might do next

The book is a delightful account by a beleaguered researcher to investigate impact of government's agro-forestry policy...

9 May 2021 9:50 AM IST

Among the six cautionary tales, the story that leaves a lasting impression, however, is not directly to do with sexual harassment. DC ImageBooks
Book Review | Bunch of cautionary tales on sexist abuse

The key to resolving the crisis is shown to be lying with the victims, themselves

25 April 2021 9:52 AM IST

There are three qualities that Chauhan novels are famous for: a toe-curling romance, mostly between polar opposites; a larger story where said polar-opposites are required to rise up to a challenge. DC ImageBooks
Book Review | B'bye chick lit, welcome cross-cultural crime fiction

Fate conspires to throw Bambi and Kashi together again rekindling old sparks when the club's handsome Zumba instructor...

25 April 2021 9:48 AM IST

Even the experimentation of biological weapons, which has been continuing under the policy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for decades, has resulted in a contamination of more than the world . Image: Pentagon PressBooks
Book Review | Worst version of China to world

Secondat has very well encapsulated a wide array of subjects, revealing much which is impactful for the Chinese public...

25 April 2021 9:45 AM IST

Among this years projects will be Hasans Shillong: First City of Indias Northeast , Jayaseelan Rajs The Egalitarian Paradox: Dalits and the State in Kerala , M. Mohsin Alam Bhats Constitutional Culture: Muslims and Popular Constitutionalism in India and Sohini Cs The Losers: A History of Women Runners, and Running, in India . (Image: newindiafoundation.org)Books
11 scholars given fellowships by NIF to chronicle today's India

The fellowships will support non-fiction publishing projects, covering trajectories marked by post-Independence India in...

18 April 2021 11:47 PM IST

One of the biggest achievements of this book is the lucid, non-judgmental manner in which Mahapatra debunks all the various swirls of misinformation around Covid-19 and its spread. DC ImageBooks
Book Review: Urgent, cogent, matter-of-fact ready-reckoner on the...

'Covid-19' does not just tackle the pandemic from scientific perspective but looks at historic, social and psychological...

11 April 2021 8:34 AM IST

Mr B a history buff was actually interested in finding some traces of Alexander the Greats historic march from Macedonia to Pakistan over two thousand years ago while the crew was more interested less in history and more in the sights and sounds of contemporary Peshawar. DC ImageBooks
Book Review: A decent sort of madness

The director's threat to leave Mr B and make his find his own way home, is answered by 'please do. I will walk home with...

11 April 2021 8:26 AM IST

Until a generation ago, there were two kinds of Muslims in India, the Communists and the conformists, Wahab says. DC ImageBooks
Book Review: Onus on the moderate Muslim to reclaim Islam's heterodox...

The predominant view about Sufism is that it exists outside Islam as a cult born out of the admixture of Hinduism with...

11 April 2021 8:15 AM IST

Banks worked mainly for R.D. Burman, (Banks terms him the Mozart of India ) Laxmikant Pyarelal, then Bappi Lahiri, till around the early 1990s. By arrangementBooks
Chronicled, the incredible journey of India's shy, wry jazz king

Born in 1941 in war-torn Calcutta, Dambar Bahadur Budaprithi was re named Louiz to fit into the anglicised world of...

28 March 2021 9:48 AM IST

Reading these stories feels like viewing a series of unrelated Polaroid photos: just as one visual starts to come into focus, the next photograph is presented, still not fully developed. By arrangementBooks
Cleverly imagined and deftly told, Sylvia wears pain lightly

Divided into two parts, the novel introduces several characters, all uniquely damaged, trying to make their way through...

28 March 2021 9:40 AM IST

Her reading of DRs personality on the whole is accurate despite the scarcely concealed admiration of a gushing fan but the uncritical appreciation of the films made at Bombay Talkies owned by Himanshu RaiBooks
A well-researched but uncritical portrait of Bollywood's first lady'

Desai's reading of DR's personality on the whole is accurate despite the scarcely concealed admiration of a gushing fan

28 March 2021 9:31 AM IST

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