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Cover Image of Rupa and Gautam Gupts book Forgotten Civilisations: The Rediscovery of Indias Lost History. (Twitter)

Book Review | Raising a toast to 15 British men who parted veil of...

The first British who came to rule India were men of the Enlightenment with an intense curiosity

2 Jan 2022 2:29 AM IST

Cover Image od Maurice Leblancs book Arsene Lupin Gentleman Burglar (Twitter)

Book Review | Arsene Lupin versus Sherlock Holmes

The history of Lupin has an uncanny similarity with that of Sherlock Holmes in the sense the character assumed a much...

26 Dec 2021 1:46 AM IST

Cover Image of Iqbal Chand Malhotras book Red Fear: The China Threat. (Twitter)

Book Review | Communists & ultranationalists: China, India fell out 6...

Having learnt the lessons of history better than India, China bided its time and positioned itself to humiliate India...

26 Dec 2021 1:38 AM IST

Cover image of Tripurdaman Singh and Adeel Hussains work Nehru: The Debates that Defined India

Book Review | Account of Nehru's vision well compiled, deficiently...

In the Introduction, the author-compilers say Nehru's vaulting vision was in practice tempered by the 'more mundane...

26 Dec 2021 1:21 AM IST

Cover image of Missed Translations (Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me) by Sopan Deb.

Book Review | Raw, dark, tender exploration of ties that bind families...

The book is raw, dark, and, surprisingly tender

19 Dec 2021 2:31 AM IST

Cover image of Modis India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy by Christophe Jaffrelot.

Book review | The true colour of Modi's majoritarianism

Modi's pro-poor, anti-establishmentarian populism did not really translate into pro-poor policies or help the poor to...

19 Dec 2021 1:51 AM IST

The Ambassador and the Private Eye By Krishnan Srinivasan.

Book Review | Somali ex-diplomat, one-armed ex-cop team up in cerebral...

The novel plays out in a sequence of episodic chapters, each dealing with a separate case

18 Dec 2021 6:58 PM IST

An old news photograph published during the 1971 war (Photo by arrangement)

How China compromised its socialist ideals and cozied up to America in...

China was the first major power to make a move by openly warning India

13 Dec 2021 7:35 AM IST

Indian Innings: The Journey of Indian Cricket from 1947.

Book Review | Spotlighting the finest Indian writing on cricket

It narrates the history of Indian cricket through earlier published reports of journalists who enjoyed a ringside view...

4 Dec 2021 9:03 PM IST

Parthibans Dream By Kalki Krishnamurthy.

Book Review | When Parthiban Kanavu morphs into Parthiban's Dream

No credit was given to the translators in the initial English renditions, an omission which was corrected in subsequent...

4 Dec 2021 9:00 PM IST

Name Place Animal Thing By Daribha Lyndem. (Amazon Photo)

Book Review | Memoiric fiction that paints vivid image of Shillong ...

There is no plot, but there are strong characters, most of whom are her family and friends

4 Dec 2021 8:58 PM IST

For India, China has been a problem for decades, even at a time when the world was fawning on that country for its growing economic clout and seemingly unending supplies of cheap goods. (Amazon Photo)

Book Review | Panchsheel and other delusions that wrongfooted our...

The ensuing conflict between the world's two Asian powers seems destined to be a defining process for global geopolitics

4 Dec 2021 8:56 PM IST