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Unique verses

US based poet Preeti Vangani's poetry book, Mother Tongue Apologize, delves into grief, sexuality and gender violence in...

31 July 2019 12:02 AM IST

Autumn light: Season of fire and farewells by Pico Iyer Penguin Random House, Rs 499.

Bittersweet, if solipsistic, musings on mortality

Iyer explains what he's doing with his newest manuscript in his usual roundabout style.

28 July 2019 3:33 AM IST

Miracle Men: The Greatest Underdog Story in Cricket by Nikhil Naz Hachette India, Rs 399.

Nostalgia sip from a Cup that changed all

The most memorable one is Kapil Dev's tongue-in-cheek reply after his 175 versus Zimbabwe.

28 July 2019 3:26 AM IST

The Assassination of Indira Gandhi: The Collected Stories of Upamanyu Chatterjee by Upamanyu Chatterjee Speaking Tiger, Rs 341.

A master at the height of his craft presents curious bouquet of styles

The story however is not just another History Lesson but a completely different type of historical narrative.

28 July 2019 3:23 AM IST

Nirvana in a corporate suit by Runjhun Noopur, Treeshade pp 224; Rs 350.

How a corporate slave finds the secret of enlightenment

Anyway, apparently, my divine intervention was operating without any intervention of will or faith (or quality check)...

26 July 2019 1:18 AM IST

Chakravarthi Rangarajan

Of Centre-state dynamics and finding ex-governor a home

A number of these issues have been highlighted in Y.V. Reddy's recent book, Indian Fiscal Federalism.

26 July 2019 1:11 AM IST

The dance of life

Anmol Arora's The Last Dance is about the life of a refugee in Delhi who becomes a Bharatanatyam dancer.

24 July 2019 12:41 AM IST

Hoshang Merchant

Stepping out of the shadows

Gay Icons of India celebrates 22 extraordinary personalities from the queer community who have resisted injustices...

24 July 2019 12:38 AM IST

The Curse of Anuganga by Harini Srinivasan TreeShade Books Rs 399.

Murder mystery set in the 1,600-year-old kingdom of an able but...

The Curse of Anuganga is a historical fiction that transports readers to 403 CE and that too without a time-machine.

21 July 2019 3:30 AM IST

Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption by Ben Mezrich Flatiron Books, Rs 499.

Racy, pacy Bitcoin origin saga is seesaw battle of billionaires vs...

Note the characters are not fictional and so this book is also about cryptohistory in motion.

21 July 2019 3:25 AM IST

Heaney (1939-2013) received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature

Snapshots of an Indian literary summer in Ireland

Mahatma Gandhi's granddaughter Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee provided the keynote addresses.

19 July 2019 1:04 AM IST

The Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie, where the author received his training.

An insider navigates the power corridors

One would imagine that this would be a humdrum account of a torpid life focused on files and rule books.

19 July 2019 1:01 AM IST