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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

Cover page of The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R

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

Cover page of Pilgrim Nation: The Making of Bharatvarsh.

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

Looking for miss sargam: Stories of music and misadventure, By Shubha Mudgal Speaking Tiger, Rs 499.

Eclectic mix has energy of maestro's superhit songs

And one brilliantly described encounter with the Badass Bandariyas later, you would certainly believe that it has.

25 Aug 2019 2:32 AM IST

The Body Myth, by Rheea Mukherjee Penguin Hamish Hamilton, Rs 499.

Studies of hypochondria, polyamory fail to carry flimsy story

Real life has no logic, I know. But good fiction does, and I found very little logic in the telling of this story.

18 Aug 2019 3:27 AM IST

Autumn light: Season of fire and farewells by Pico Iyer Penguin Random House, Rs 499.

Bittersweet, if solipsistic, musings on mortality

Iyer explains what he's doing with his newest manuscript in his usual roundabout style.

28 July 2019 3:33 AM IST

To Night Owl From Dogfish, By Holly Goldberg Sloan and Meg Wolitzer Egmont, Rs 624.

Laughter, emails and adventures of young girlfriends

If at all you're floundering in sadness, read To Night Owl From Dogfish. I guarantee it'll get you laughing again.

14 July 2019 7:58 AM IST

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, By Sunita Puri Hachette India, 320pp, Rs 599.

When you need to accept death, read this to save your life

Puri's mother is an anesthesiologist, and Sunita and her younger brother grew up in a household steeped in medicine.

16 Jun 2019 7:04 AM IST