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Book Review | Here are Alyque Padamsee’s thoughts on the New Joint Family
It’s a joint responsibility to create a joint family, says Alyque Padamsee
03 Apr 2022 12:55 AM
Book Review | Boy meets girl in elite New India
Best Intentions is a fairly realistic and witty depiction of contemporary upper-class urban India
03 Apr 2022 12:24 AM
Book Review | Sketches from Bangladesh on the slow death of ideals
Shahidul Zahir tells of the horrors that came before the creation of Bangladesh and of why their shadows will never leave the land
03 Apr 2022 12:05 AM
Book Review | China’s geopolitical risks are more in southeast than west, southwest
The book tries to formulate well-researched geopolitical imperatives for China and predicts Chinese responses
27 Mar 2022 12:40 AM
Book Review | Secrets of colonialism and exile from the dark heart of Ostafrika
Reading Gurnah is a bit like watching a Ray film rather than a Kurosawa or Ghatak
27 Mar 2022 12:20 AM
Book Review | A spice’s violent trajectory begs us, do not ‘other’ nature, old societies
What happens when you get to the last page of a book feeling a bit confused and intrigued?
20 Mar 2022 12:14 AM
Book Review | Joy, heartbreak, anger: What women write…
In a model case scenario, there should be no reason to have a separate category of women’s fiction other than to amplify their voices
20 Mar 2022 12:11 AM
Book Review | Is dialogue the key to firming our grasp on Indo-Pak ties?
The author has got together forty nine Indians and Pakistanis to pen their views on the subject
20 Mar 2022 12:07 AM
Book Review | How humanity redeems the individual
Many of the stories end on a note of satisfaction for the reader, as when retribution or karma catches up
13 Mar 2022 12:46 AM
Book Review | Sharp, broad and objective look at India’s foreign policy
Menon’s book is about India in the context of Asian geopolitics, a most complex subject
06 Mar 2022 2:46 AM
Book review | A mermaid’s story told in poetic prose, with eye catching artwork
The story is told from the point of view of Ila, a half-woman, half-mermaid
06 Mar 2022 2:38 AM
Book Review | The Internet can be intrusive: Better learn how to be left alone
However, when you think about privacy, it is worth asking if every message is really worth saving
06 Mar 2022 1:00 AM
An authentic biography of a scientific pioneer
Written by Biman Nath, the book aims to popularise science and the history science amongst lay readers
27 Feb 2022 3:58 AM
Book Review | Poetry, privilege and a teacher’s duties
This book gives you a good look at the world of global academia, and how different cultures merge seamlessly in the world of arts
27 Feb 2022 3:27 AM
Book Review | Clear-eyed perspective on Mahatma’s assassination
The first thing that strikes you about this book is its no-nonsense writing
27 Feb 2022 2:45 AM
Book Review | Who’s who in the New Great Game that has started in Afghanistan
The US abandoning Afghanistan to let it fall to the Taliban is one of the greatest catastrophes of the 21st century
20 Feb 2022 3:45 AM
Book Review | Murders, served with dollops of laughter
Dolly is suspected of one of the murders and it is up to Mini to don the sleuth’s hat and clear her friend’s name
20 Feb 2022 2:30 AM
Book Review | Feline mystique! How one cat can change your world
It’s a collection of essays and fictions by cat lovers
20 Feb 2022 2:02 AM
Book Review | Take the Muslim out of India and what’s left is this heady daydream
Only a comprehensive, all-encompassing dialogue can resolve this situation and that is best-presented in a fast-paced drama
13 Feb 2022 2:47 AM
Book Review | Brevity and black humour soul of poignant tale set in Punjab of 1980s
That said, the state of Punjab as a whole, has been witness to a lot of violence, and change
13 Feb 2022 1:50 AM
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