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Book Review | Fables study climate, capital and the flawed beauty of our lives

Dangerous Pursuits demonstrates the writer’s depth of thought and breadth of skill. We float effortlessly from satire and humour to poetry

23 Oct 2022 1:36 AM

Book Review | Discoveries from the desk of a Booker winner

These stories remind us of the author of the DSC Prize winning Chinaman and the Booker Prize winning The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

23 Oct 2022 1:21 AM

Book Review | How India got Hodgson’s Line erased and won the race to Siachen

The result is that the book reads like a thriller and will thus appeal to a wide audience

15 Oct 2022 10:53 PM

Book Review | Zarifa’s compelling story rips Taliban’s Iron Curtain

Zarifa’s childhood memories consist of watching videos with the volume turned off and curtains drawn

15 Oct 2022 10:49 PM

Book Review | Jaunty campus novel full of college jokes

The action takes place at Bhagwandas, a hostel for male law students at Banaras Hindu University

15 Oct 2022 10:47 PM

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Book Review | Missed chance to bring nuance to the conversation on Islam

Review of 'Challenges to a Liberal Polity' by M. Hamid Ansari

09 Oct 2022 1:23 AM

Book Review | An unconventional debut that still misses the plot

Review of 'C: A Novel' by Anupama Raju

09 Oct 2022 1:18 AM

Book Review | Crime pays for this British-Indian author

Review of 'Evil at the Core' By Vinquita Romaine

09 Oct 2022 1:09 AM

Book Review | Grief in verse, portrayed arrestingly

Review of 'These Errors Are Correct' By Jeet Thayil

02 Oct 2022 1:17 AM

Book Review | Rowling’s edgy whodunit isn’t all that controversial

Review of 'The Ink Black Heart' By Robert Galbraith

02 Oct 2022 1:05 AM

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Book Review | Man of contradictions who galvanised Hindi literature

Review of Writer Rebel Soldier Lover: The Many Lives of Agyeya by Akshaya Mukul

25 Sep 2022 7:54 AM

Book Excerpt | Washington’s war against Huawei put Beijing on the backfoot

Book Excerpt Negotiating the New Normal By Saurav Jha

25 Sep 2022 1:49 AM

Book Review | The cobbler’s contribution

Review of 'The Shoemaker’s Stitch: Mochi Embroideries of Gujarat in the TAPI Collection' By Shilpa Shah and Rosemary Crill

25 Sep 2022 1:39 AM

Book Exceprt | When nostalgia overtakes love and rebellion gives way to doubt

Excerpt from Newlyweds by Mansi Choksi

18 Sep 2022 2:15 AM

Book Review | Sanjeev Kumar’s life ably reconstructed

Review of Sanjeev Kumar: The Actor We All Loved By Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta and Uday Jariwala

18 Sep 2022 1:34 AM

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Book Review | The success and sacrifice of India’s last political hero

Excerpt from The Life and Times of George Fernandes By Rahul Ramagundam

18 Sep 2022 1:25 AM

Book Review | Mazda & the allure of Persian mythology...

The story starts with a thief breaking into the British museum to steal the Cyrus Cylinder, a relic of Cyrus the Great who ruled Persia

11 Sep 2022 1:51 AM

Book Excerpt | Some seek song, others salvation, still others wealth at Kumbh

Excerpt from In Search of the Pitcher of Nectar By Samaresh Basu

11 Sep 2022 1:35 AM

Book Review | Let’s make peace with China and Pak, cozy up to Russia

Excerpt from The Last War By Pravin Sawhney

11 Sep 2022 1:13 AM

Book Review | Love, and the dilemmas of devadasi life

A novel that beautifully echoes the sentiment of the Devadasi community

04 Sep 2022 2:13 AM

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