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Reading these stories feels like viewing a series of unrelated Polaroid photos: just as one visual starts to come into focus, the next photograph is presented, still not fully developed. By arrangement

Cleverly imagined and deftly told, Sylvia wears pain lightly

Divided into two parts, the novel introduces several characters, all uniquely damaged, trying to make their way through...

28 March 2021 9:40 AM IST

Her reading of DRs personality on the whole is accurate despite the scarcely concealed admiration of a gushing fan but the uncritical appreciation of the films made at Bombay Talkies owned by Himanshu Rai

A well-researched but uncritical portrait of Bollywood's first lady'

Desai's reading of DR's personality on the whole is accurate despite the scarcely concealed admiration of a gushing fan

28 March 2021 9:31 AM IST

Codenamed Operation X, the untold story of Indias covert naval war in East Pakistan in 1971was put together in a book with the same title by Captain M.N.R. Samant, one of INs hardcore professionals and Sandeep Unnithan, the journalist son of a naval officer, and it turned out to read like an unputdownable thriller.

Book Review | Navy's 1971 covert exploits make for breathless reading

Conceived by a few hard core professional IN officers in 1971, Operation X was innovatively conceived and meticulously...

14 March 2021 4:46 AM IST

The core of the narrative revolves around Vavachan, a Dalit Pulayan converted to Christianity.

Book Review | Welcome to Kuttanad's twisted and magical world

Hareesh's novel, set in the first half of the last century, is a phantasmagorical journey through Kuttanad

14 March 2021 4:14 AM IST

Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, translated by Jenny Bhatt.

Book Review | Worlds within worlds in Dhumketu's best classic short...

In this collection of stories, you go back in time to the age of Bimbisaar, move to Darjeeling just before and after a...

14 March 2021 2:16 AM IST

Jaipur Literature Festival (Photo: Facebook @JaipurLitFest)

Sucheta Dasgupta | JLF 2021: Tharoor skewers Sandel

It's not just about creative writing; the Jaipur Literature Festival is a festival of ideas

28 Feb 2021 4:35 AM IST

Modern South India A History from the 17th Century to Our Times By RAJMOHAN GANDHI (Photo: Twitter @AlephBookCo)

Mohan Ramaswamy | The ocean, not Himalayas: Presenting the South India...

It was most fascinating to pore over the book on modern South India which is a history from the 17th century right up to...

28 Feb 2021 4:11 AM IST

Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here By Aakar Patel. (Photo: Facebook @westlandbooks )

Ranjona Banerji | How atavism became ideology and Hindutva ambushed...

'Our Hindu Rashtra' is more a presentation of our recent history from the perspective of democracy

28 Feb 2021 4:09 AM IST

Dr Sudipta Sarangis The Economics of Small Things (Twitter@PenguinIndia)

Clever treatise marries economics, storytelling

Dr Sudipta Sarangi weaves anecdotes and economic incidents with fascinating studies in her book The Economics of Small...

21 Feb 2021 4:15 AM IST

Cover page of By Many A Happy Accident by Hamid Ansari

India's diversity a fact of life that can't be wished away'

The book is a recollection from memory, says Hamid Ansari on his autobiography

7 Feb 2021 12:45 PM IST

Cover page of Guru Dutt: An Unfinished Story

The suicide attempt: Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam is the story of our lives'

It was while this movie shooting Guru Dutt and Geeta had grown further apart

7 Feb 2021 12:42 PM IST

Cover page of Beautiful Place by Amanthi Harris

Book REVIEW | Privilege-bound but absorbing study of rural Sri Lanka

A deeply absorbing novel of the old school, Beautiful Place is strongest when it portrays the worlds that the author is...

7 Feb 2021 12:38 PM IST