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Book Review | An old woman’s odd quest to find her co-wives

Antony’s prose is so lyrical that it can be set to music

23 Mar 2024 1:44 PM

Exactly how do we bring in selfless leaders, redraft democracy?

In effect, what democracy and democratic institutions require is periodic review, reflection, audit and redesign

23 Mar 2024 1:42 PM

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Book Review | At waltz of Dragon, Elephant, Lion, Eagle, Nehru’s prescience

On the whole, the book offers us a reminder that the present may be equally difficult to weather as the storms over China gather afresh

23 Mar 2024 1:38 PM

This is also a story of a friendship which has its beginnings in St Stephen’s College. Rukun was two years senior to Ram and much feared for his erudition and his love for Western classical music. — By Arrangement

Book Review | Editor’s honesty forges unlikely friendship in world of letters

His first book, The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya, launched Guha’s literary career

18 Mar 2024 12:27 AM

Book Review | Scientist plays God in laboured science fiction

The writing is patchy: It’s good most of the way, though often self-indulgent, sometimes turgid, and occasionally just plain wretched

17 Mar 2024 1:06 PM

Book Review | Sympathetic detective, lame whodunit

It’s only towards the fag end of the book that the author remembers he promised us a serial killer, and gets his act together

17 Mar 2024 12:54 PM

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Book review | A writer’s diary is a repository of ideas

One thread that runs through Kumar’s Yellow Book is the pandemic

09 Mar 2024 8:49 PM

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Book review | Edge-of-seat thriller on an Indo-Pak showdown

Written in a simple style, with some Urdu sprinkled here and there, makes the book a good read

09 Mar 2024 8:40 PM

AI cannot imagine something new and original that can have impact years later: Laurent Daudet

The threat of AI-driven job loss and corporate takeover of the world is more real than we anticipated

09 Mar 2024 2:19 PM

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Book Review | When the fiction is so gratifying, can journalism be ever enough?

They expose systematically love jiihad, population jihad and Muslim appeasement with facts and figures

09 Mar 2024 2:15 PM

The book titled Why Bharat Matters is about how India or Bharat has assumed greater global stature in recent years and what challenges it has encountered along the way.

Book Review | Textbook on government foreign policy, not juicy thesis on Bharat

Foreign Minister Jaishankar's insightful analysis of India's global standing, though dense, sheds light on the nation's diplomatic victories

03 Mar 2024 12:00 AM

When I (Kai Bird) finished high school and went off to college, I thought I might want to be a lawyer. — By Arrangement

In Facebook, there are no footnotes: Kai Bird

It’s a terrific thing to win the Pulitzer and it is the only award in America that actually helps to sell books

02 Mar 2024 5:16 PM

Long after these events passed into history, the case would continue to capture the popular imagination — books would be written, films made and it would even feature in TV series such as the Simpsons. — By Arrangement

Book Review | Writer’s muse parses a Victorian court drama

Zadie Smith’s novel encompasses the Tichborne case but its scope is far wider

25 Feb 2024 1:20 PM

Rajen’s family business was in the hosiery trade in Calcutta (Kolkata). His granduncle D. Mehra had been introduced to the family business at an early age and was quite adept at selling hosiery, setting up shop at a pavement outside Kolkata’s iconic New Market. — DC Image

Book Review | How a hosiery salesman launched India’s first indie publishing giant

Rajen had already moved to Delhi a decade earlier to establish Rupa’s branch

25 Feb 2024 12:57 PM

What the national media grossly under-reported was that maximum farmer suicides, the highest in the country, took place when Naidu was at the helm. — DC Image

Book Review | A tale of two CMs who put Andhra Pradesh on the path of modernity

The other figure in focus in this book is Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, arguably the only “people’s CM” undivided Andhra Pradesh has known

25 Feb 2024 12:53 PM

Writer Manoj Rupda. (Image by Arrangement)

I write sense into anarchy, share that vision with reader: Manoj Rupda

Hindi writer Manoj Rupda sheds light on the inspiration, significance of silence and political undertones in his critically acclaimed novel

22 Feb 2024 10:39 PM

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Book Review: For good diplomacy don’t just manage anger, channelise it!

The bottomline of India and Pakistan relationship is that normalcy is not possible until Pakistan reconciles to the reality and existence of India

17 Feb 2024 1:55 PM

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Book Review: A plunge into the grim history of those ‘Little Indias’ around world

The web of deception that promoted indenture in India had many facets, and many facilitators

17 Feb 2024 1:52 PM

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Book Review: Celebrity grief memoir feeds into trauma industry

The book delves into scientific explanations of pain, misidentification of physical body, mind and character, the path to enlightenment,

17 Feb 2024 1:33 PM

Book Review | A reporter’s diary with thrilling stories only a newsman can tell

Mahendra recently celebrated his 75th birthday by penning his memoirs, @75 As I Saw It, a quintessential reporter’s diary

10 Feb 2024 12:20 PM

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