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Book Review | Clear-eyed and engrossing look back at six Indian medical pioneers
To her credit, Kavitha Rao’s Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine steers clear of such predilections
01 Aug 2021 2:08 AM
Book Review | An economist's cheeky jottings on bureaucracy's quirks, World Bank
He is a delightful raconteur whose diary straddles many walks of life
01 Aug 2021 1:03 AM
A melange of insights that elate and sadden
Sen uses his voice to bring home every atrocity we have wrought on this planet, on ourselves and our lives
18 Jul 2021 2:43 AM
The humour and romance of being in Karuthupuzha
The Oracle of Karuthupuzha has all the elements to make it the perfect book of fiction to ‘escape’ into during a pandemic
18 Jul 2021 1:49 AM
Muslims are ‘geographical Hindus’
For dialogue to succeed between Muslims and RSS-oriented Hindus, it is imperative for both sides to admit that there exist misgivings
18 Jul 2021 1:41 AM
Congruity, not clash, of civilisations is at root of Sen’s academic vision
He found distinguished Cambridge economists less concerned about issues like inequality, poverty and exploitation
18 Jul 2021 1:19 AM
Book Review | ‘Many of us drift into friendships, but Ram takes his very seriously’
Over the last twenty years I have known Ram in various guises, but there are earlier incarnations that I could not know
04 Jul 2021 3:49 AM
Book Review | Free speech, fake news & the Indian press
For the sake of authenticity, the author, a newspaper industry veteran, restricts his scrutiny to the print media
04 Jul 2021 3:31 AM
Book Review | Resurrecting, in mind’s eye, a living Red Fort
While much of the book and its many short sections tend to be somewhat disjointed and faltering, as we approach the end, things change
04 Jul 2021 3:25 AM
Book Review | A global Indian’s view of the best the world has to offer…
Sundeep is one of those friends with whom you can pick up from where you left off
04 Jul 2021 2:35 AM
Book review | All Roads Lead North
A handshake across Himalayas, amid Terai rumblings
21 Jun 2021 11:48 AM
Book Review | An Odia literary star’s fine vignettes, wicked wit and social insights
While the book deals with dark subjects, the hand that writes it is beautifully light, and gives you many occasions to laugh out loud
20 Jun 2021 12:30 AM
Book Review | The eloquent outsider, lovingly remembered...
Guru Dutt had the rare ability of being loved and commanding the loyalty of those who came in contact with him
20 Jun 2021 12:20 AM
Book Review | Fantasy beats autofiction, but ‘magic realism’ trounced by fact
Salman contends that publishing today favours the revealing, racially, sexually and culturally situated autobiography
20 Jun 2021 12:10 AM
Book Review | Bookseller’s love story in wartime Paris shows past is never behind us
Fast paced, the book, though a work of fiction, has been well researched and with historical sources cited
06 Jun 2021 9:27 AM
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
06 Jun 2021 9:18 AM
Book Review | An insider’s view on elite publishing in Indian Right’s shadow
The book gives us an opportunity to have an insider’s view of the Indian publishing world
06 Jun 2021 9:11 AM
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
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
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
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