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This is clearly a book that needs to be read over an extended period of time. (Photo: Goodreads)

Book Review | Hobsbawm's choice: When logic rejects nationalism...

Britain's best-known historian, Eric Hobsbawm, traverses a similar path in his writings on Nationalism

6 Jun 2021 9:18 AM IST

The title of Ritwiks novel is a metaphor for our times. (Photo: Goodreads)

Book Review | An insider's view on elite publishing in Indian Right's...

The book gives us an opportunity to have an insider's view of the Indian publishing world

6 Jun 2021 9:11 AM IST

The author with his significant other. (Image by arrangement)

Covid orphans: Climber pitches in with book

Aditya Gupta is a Delhi-based entrepreneur, founder of The Rug Republic and a trained mountaineer

25 May 2021 3:01 PM IST

The book starts with a conversation with Sivaraman, an active researcher on the construction of mridangam. (Image: Amazon)

Book Review | Monograph studies tone of mridangam

Mridangam, also called Naadha Vadhiyam and king of percussion instruments, has evolved over centuries

23 May 2021 11:29 AM IST

The novel brings out the paradox that the Tamil Tigers. (Photo: Goodreads)

Book Review | War fiction, which resembles fact

The story of induction into Sri Lanka and coping up with the fears of mines is narrated through conversations

23 May 2021 11:27 AM IST

Chetak was another heroic horse who succumbed to his battle wounds. (Image: Goodreads)

Book Review | Warm, fuzzy resum©s of pets of royal heroes

In some cases, the bonds between pets and masters were so strong that even death could not separate them

23 May 2021 11:26 AM IST

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