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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

Structurally, too, Ameeras circumstances feel temporary compared to Feroza Begums lifelong entrapment; the latter is better synchronised with Lalarukhs adventures. DC Image

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 Image

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 Image

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 Image

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 Press

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)

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 Image

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 Image

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 Image

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 arrangement

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