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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

Coverpage of The Startup Wife By Tahmima Anam

Book Review | Geeky startup ideator cheekily observes patriarchy

Anam's pen has a flair for infusing humour into the storytelling, which jogged at a steady pace

25 Sept 2021 11:26 PM IST

Cover page of The Dalai Lama: A Remarkable Life

Book Review | How the Dalai Lama beat Communists by spreading the...

Author Alexander Norman's book traces the tragic sequence of events that marked the Dalai Lama's life

25 Sept 2021 11:18 PM IST

Things didnt change after I joined Nowrosjee Wadia College in Pune. The students too had never heard of the battle of Rezang La.

Book Review | Why I decided to pen down the story of Rezang La

In 2018, when the thought occurred to me about writing a book on the Rezang La battle, it came to me as an epiphany

16 Sept 2021 1:06 AM IST

The poem, Light of Asia, by Edwn Arnold has a curious life and journey of its own.

Ambedkar's Buddha inspires me more than Gandhi's: Jairam Ramesh

I connect more with Ambedkar's social revolutionary Buddha than Gandhi's spiritual teacher, says Jairam Ramesh

13 Sept 2021 6:47 PM IST

On December 16, 1971, 93,000 Pakistani soldiers surrendered to the Indian Army in the newly liberated Bangladesh. (Image: Amazon)

Book Review | Rare and inspiring accounts from the 1971 war theatres

A serious drawback for India is that for over 74 years since its independence, its actual history has not been taught in...

12 Sept 2021 2:32 AM IST

Since Dhondys title Fragments Against My Ruin, taken from The Waste Land, has been interpreted in many ways, one cant be sure of his precise meaning. (Image: Amazon)

Book Review | An immigrant's progress and other scoops from Old...

Did Ronald Reagan really think after seeing Attenborough's film that Indira Gandhi was the Mahatma's daughter?

12 Sept 2021 2:30 AM IST