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    Book Review | A Young Mother’s Horror Story From AfghanistanBooks
    Book Review | A Young Mother’s Horror Story From Afghanistan

    City of Widows is set in Afghanistan across two timelines. From 2010 onwards, we witness a pregnant teenaged runaway...

    26 Sept 2026 3:04 PM IST

    Book Review | When Your Man is Hit by the #MeToo WaveBooks
    Book Review | When Your Man is Hit by the #MeToo Wave

    And it isn’t clickbait material – Shuma Raha tells a genuinely good story that moves at a brisk pace even as it gives...

    1 Aug 2026 1:28 PM IST

    Book Review | Surrealist Fiction Can Be HumorousBooks
    Book Review | Surrealist Fiction Can Be Humorous

    The story, about the effect of the arrival of a vacuum cleaner salesman on the people of a small town, was not just...

    6 Jun 2026 2:26 PM IST

    Book Review | Funny But Unnerving Portrait of PakistanBooks
    Book Review | Funny But Unnerving Portrait of Pakistan

    The humour in Pakistani writer Mohammed Hanif’s latest novel, Rebel English Academy, is disarming. Within a few pages of...

    2 May 2026 11:51 AM IST

    Book Review | How a CEO Scaled the Summit of FaithBooks
    Book Review | How a CEO Scaled the Summit of Faith

    I never thought I’d say this about anything in the self-help genre, but this book? It’s helpful

    21 March 2026 1:35 PM IST

    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

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