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Cover photo of The Laughter by Sonora Jha. (Photo by arrangement)

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

Cover photo of Gastronama: The Indian Guide to Eating Right by Kalpish Ratna. (Photo by arrangement)

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

Its a series of essays about Sara Rais 1960s. (Photo By Arrangement)

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)

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 Image

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.

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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Book REVIEW | The importance of being earnest in a villainish and...

The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R. is not a political novel. It's a novel set in politics, but it's about Ruby and no...

20 Dec 2020 8:21 AM IST

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BOOK REVIEW | Preachy tone mars this quirky history of local...

If you are familiar with Pattanaik's earlier books, you will also note that this book is not quite in his usual style

22 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST

Karna: The Great Warrior, by Ranjit Desai, translated by Vikrant Pande HarperPerennial, Rs 499.

Karna's #MeToo moment cries out for a reckoning

Desai did devote a few words to Karna's state of mind when Draupadi was dragged into the court like a slave after all...

3 Nov 2019 2:09 AM IST

Yashodhara by Volga, translated from the Telugu by P.S.V. Prasad Harper Perennial India, Rs 299.

Sapiosexual love is where Buddha and Yashodhara were at

A few weeks after I finished this book, I came across a social media post announcing an anti-feminist yajna in...

6 Oct 2019 5:02 AM IST