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    Cover photo of The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams. (Photo by arrangement)Books
    Book Review | An English garden opens window to healing

    Odd though it may seem, this sadness that you don't expect to find in a feel-good book is what makes it work so well.

    13 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

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    Book Review | A literary thriller parsing corruption and class

    Age of Vice is about Ajay, a dalit from an Uttar Pradesh village who is trafficked at the age of eight to work as a...

    30 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

    The entire book is about secrets. Secrets held by Mallika, the protagonist. Secrets held by Mallikas mother, Mallikas aunt, Mallikas neighbours and Mallikas friends all the main characters. If I were to describe Fear and Lovely the way I want to, you would hear a robotic voice uttering spoiler alert at the start of almost every paragraph.Books
    Book review | Slow & lovely dive into a middle class Indian girl's...

    The entire book is about secrets. Secrets held by Mallika, the protagonist

    3 July 2023 1:04 AM IST

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    Book Review | Lockdown and the homemaker blues

    Well written enough that I got through it without wanting to bang my head against a wall.

    11 Jun 2023 12:18 AM IST

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    Book Review | Culture wars (in a US varsity) and the price of clarity

    10 days after I closed the book, I still feel as though it ran me over with a lorry.

    23 April 2023 12:47 AM IST

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    Book Review | Listen to your body, not your brain, when it comes to...

    Review of 'Gastronama: The Indian Guide to Eating Right' by Kalpish Ratna.

    26 March 2023 12:16 AM IST

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    Book Review | Premchand's grandchild curates her memories

    Only when I had the book in my hands did I realise that Sara Rai is the granddaughter of that great writer in Hindi,...

    4 March 2023 10:49 PM IST

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    Book Review | Desi Lesbian romance hopes to make a point

    The romance novel about star-crossed lovers Krish and Mahi has not one, not two, but three happy endings

    9 Jan 2023 10:12 AM IST

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    Book Review | How Anglo-Indians transformed India

    The book covers much more than the things I've described, of course. It is as comprehensive as any book about any...

    4 Dec 2022 8:09 AM IST

    Cover Photo of Rethink Ageing: Lessons in Ageing from the Older and Bolder Generation by Reshmi Chakraborty and Nidhi Chawla (Photo: By arrangement)Books
    Book Review | Who's afraid of growing old?

    The book, strangely, given my pessimism about ageing, made me smile

    20 Nov 2022 1:35 AM IST

    Patil is an idealist, a person who quit a well-paying information technology job to help save the world but her ideas of the things that constitute field research and conservation are similar to the ideas of bureaucrats and men with moustaches only in the most superficial way. DC ImageBooks
    Book Review | Laugh and also ponder what patriarchy might do next

    The book is a delightful account by a beleaguered researcher to investigate impact of government's agro-forestry policy...

    9 May 2021 9:50 AM IST

    Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, translated by Jenny Bhatt.Books
    Book Review | Worlds within worlds in Dhumketu's best classic short...

    In this collection of stories, you go back in time to the age of Bimbisaar, move to Darjeeling just before and after a...

    14 March 2021 2:16 AM IST

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