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Cover page of The Oracle of Karuthupuzha by Manu Bhattathiri. (Twitter)

The humour and romance of being in Karuthupuzha

The Oracle of Karuthupuzha has all the elements to make it the perfect book of fiction to escape' into during a pandemic

18 July 2021 1:49 AM IST

Cover page of The Meeting of Minds: A Bridging Initiative by Khwaja Iftikhar Ahmed. (Twitter)

Muslims are geographical Hindus'

For dialogue to succeed between Muslims and RSS-oriented Hindus, it is imperative for both sides to admit that there...

18 July 2021 1:41 AM IST

Cover page of Home in The World; A Memoir by Amartya Sen. (Twitter)

Congruity, not clash, of civilisations is at root of Sen's academic...

He found distinguished Cambridge economists less concerned about issues like inequality, poverty and exploitation

18 July 2021 1:19 AM IST

Cover page of A Functioning Anarchy? Essays for Ramachandra Guha . (Twitter)

Book Review | Many of us drift into friendships, but Ram takes his...

Over the last twenty years I have known Ram in various guises, but there are earlier incarnations that I could not know

4 July 2021 3:49 AM IST

Book Review | Free speech, fake news & the Indian press

Book Review | Free speech, fake news & the Indian press

For the sake of authenticity, the author, a newspaper industry veteran, restricts his scrutiny to the print media

4 July 2021 3:31 AM IST

Cover photo of Red Fort: Remembering the Magnificent Mughals by Debasish Das. (Twitter)

Book Review | Resurrecting, in mind's eye, a living Red Fort

While much of the book and its many short sections tend to be somewhat disjointed and faltering, as we approach the end,...

4 July 2021 3:25 AM IST

Cover page of The Global Desi: Reflections on Home and Away by Sundeep Bhutoria. (Twitter)

Book Review | A global Indian's view of the best the world has to...

Sundeep is one of those friends with whom you can pick up from where you left off

4 July 2021 2:35 AM IST

Book cover of All Roads Lead North by Amish Raj Mulmi. (Photo: Goodreads)

Book review | All Roads Lead North

A handshake across Himalayas, amid Terai rumblings

21 Jun 2021 11:48 AM IST

A scripture-quoting narrator with tongue firmly in cheek relates the story of a devious zamindar and moneylender in a village in Odisha. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | An Odia literary star's fine vignettes, wicked wit and...

While the book deals with dark subjects, the hand that writes it is beautifully light, and gives you many occasions to...

20 Jun 2021 12:30 AM IST

In his short, intense, sad but artistically fruitful life Guru Dutt managed to communicate with a large audience who paid to see his films and sustained his production company; an absolute necessity in commercial Hindi cinema. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | The eloquent outsider, lovingly remembered...

Guru Dutt had the rare ability of being loved and commanding the loyalty of those who came in contact with him

20 Jun 2021 12:20 AM IST

Salmans essay is not unsympathetic to the hijras and charts the structure of their social existence and pleads for some attention to the risks they face through HIV and AIDS. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | Fantasy beats autofiction, but magic realism' trounced...

Salman contends that publishing today favours the revealing, racially, sexually and culturally situated autobiography

20 Jun 2021 12:10 AM IST

The book comes with a list of questions for reading club discussions. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | Bookseller's love story in wartime Paris shows past is...

Fast paced, the book, though a work of fiction, has been well researched and with historical sources cited

6 Jun 2021 9:27 AM IST