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    Book Review | Notes on How to Navigate LifeBooks
    Book Review | Notes on How to Navigate Life

    Readers who have enjoyed Aiyar’s travel books, such as Smoke and Mirrors and Punjabi Parmesan, and were hoping for...

    21 Feb 2026 12:27 PM IST

    Book Review | Comedian’s Memoir Lives up to Its PromiseBooks
    Book Review | Comedian’s Memoir Lives up to Its Promise

    In The Outsider, Vir Das reflects on how, his entire life, he’s never actually fitted in anywhere

    17 Jan 2026 12:59 PM IST

    Book Review | A Flashlit Mosaic of Mystery & MemoryBooks
    Book Review | A Flashlit Mosaic of Mystery & Memory

    All I can say is the book is part domestic drama, part historical fiction, and wholly compelling in its exploration of...

    13 Dec 2025 1:18 PM IST

    Book Review | Slow-moving Thriller Shambles Into PragueBooks
    Book Review | Slow-moving Thriller Shambles Into Prague

    Start. Stop. Start. Stop. Start. Stop. Reading Dan Brown’s latest novel, The Secret of Secrets, was like driving in...

    15 Nov 2025 8:33 PM IST

    Book Review | So What if Britain were to be India’s 30th State?Books
    Book Review | So What if Britain were to be India’s 30th State?

    For two weeks since I finished the book, these questions have ruled my mind. I still don’t have answers. So I can’t...

    18 Oct 2025 1:49 PM IST

    Book Review | Thinking Through the World by Night TrainBooks
    Book Review | Thinking Through the World by Night Train

    Monisha Rajesh, a British journalist who, in 2023, was named in Conde Nast Traveller’s ‘Women Who Travel Power List’,...

    4 Oct 2025 1:10 PM IST

    Book Review | Sufi Symbols, Afghanistan Jazz up Murder MysteryBooks
    Book Review | Sufi Symbols, Afghanistan Jazz up Murder Mystery

    If the storytelling had been more incisive, The Sufi Storyteller could have been a book I’d love

    26 July 2025 2:24 PM IST

    Book Review | Gritty Delhi, Glitzy Delhi And All Delhis In-BetweenBooks
    Book Review | Gritty Delhi, Glitzy Delhi And All Delhis In-Between

    The other thing about this anthology that really makes a difference is that many of the pieces have been translated from...

    17 May 2025 1:42 PM IST

    Book Review | Quirky epic set in WW2 CalcuttaBooks
    Book Review | Quirky epic set in WW2 Calcutta

    On page 450, exactly halfway through Great Eastern Hotel, Ruchir Joshi’s 900-page behemoth of a historical novel,...

    15 March 2025 12:05 PM IST

    Book Review | Who cares for the fate of a professional saboteur?Books
    Book Review | Who cares for the fate of a professional saboteur?

    Usually, when I finish reading a book that has gripped me from start to end, I’m dying to talk about it....

    11 Jan 2025 1:14 PM IST

    Overwrought and under-imaginedBooks
    Overwrought and under-imagined

    He’s had sex but has never had intimacy and doesn’t expect he ever will

    2 Nov 2024 6:20 PM IST

    Book Review | Can Japan’s young write their own story?Books
    Book Review | Can Japan’s young write their own story?

    Some five decades of dedicated reading have led me to put my faith in a certain axiom associated with...

    24 Aug 2024 1:32 PM IST

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