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Cover of the book The Promise

South African novelist Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize for 'The...

'The Promise' is the story of a troubled Afrikaner family and its broken promise to a Black employee

5 Nov 2021 7:57 AM IST

Cover Image of Gaurie Dwivedis How Will the World Counter China?.

Book Review | Dragon rising: How India can help world

The well-researched book takes a bird's eye view of the challenges that a rising and basically belligerent China...

24 Oct 2021 2:59 AM IST

Every chapter of the book tells an equally sordid tale of a young life destroyed by police and other government security agencies. (DC Image)

Book Review | Cut down in their prime and living with the tag of...

Overall, the book compiles the ordeals of 16 such young men

24 Oct 2021 2:43 AM IST

Cover Image of Namita Gokhales book The Blind Matriarch.

Book Review | Pandemic, and traumas past: Finding a gentler way...

Reading Namita Gokhale's latest book The Blind Matriarch is an essential, gentle remembering

24 Oct 2021 2:12 AM IST

On the Open Road

A week's plan works for me'

An inspirational story of three people who refuse to give up on themselves

21 Oct 2021 10:48 AM IST

Cover page of An Island by Karen Jennings

Book review | Taut psychological thriller asks key political questions

It never feels like a dense psychological thriller, even though that is exactly what it is

10 Oct 2021 11:06 AM IST

Cover page of Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy

Book review | Of teachers, creativity, change and other forces that...

The story traverses the lives of different social groups, making a comment here and there about the changes in society

10 Oct 2021 10:57 AM IST

Cover page of Banaras: of Gods, Humans and Stories

Book review | Two exquisite odes to a pair of ancient cities

Part-history, part-travelogue and part-reportage, Biswas and Nabi's extensive work traces the evolution of Shiva's home...

10 Oct 2021 10:31 AM IST

Cover page of The Light of Asia

Book review | Strange life of a poem that revealed Buddha to world

Jairam Ramesh's Light of Asia, there can be no doubt, is an altogether satisfying and successful experiment

10 Oct 2021 10:21 AM IST

Cover page of Kathmandu Dilemma: Resetting India-Nepal Ties

Book Review | Why does Nepal need constant reaffirmation of its...

Diplomat Ranjit Rae confirms the prickly nature of Nepali pride when it comes to India and attempts to lay bare its...

30 Sept 2021 12:17 PM IST

Cover of the book A Rude Life

Vir's lesson: If you've done it, own it. At least the good part

Sanghvi's sort of self-assured ankhon-hi-ankhon mein direct dialogue with the reader is rare for women

26 Sept 2021 7:58 AM IST

Coverpage of Mahanadi By Anita Agnihotri.

Book Review | A great river's stories that inquire, inform

A classic example of realist eco-fiction, it effortlessly straddles the domains of geography, sociology, cultural...

25 Sept 2021 11:33 PM IST