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    No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories by Jayant Kaikini HarperPerennial, Rs 350Books
    Celebrating the spirit of Mumbai

    Communal riots break out the next day, the city in a frenzy of bloodletting created by politicians enjoying the show on...

    4 Feb 2018 7:31 AM IST

    Shikari:The Hunt by Yashwant Chittal, Penguin, Random House, Rs 312Books
    Hankering for a deep read? Get Shikari

    The translation is very good, despite the translator's fears about bringing this complex and densely-written Kannada...

    14 Jan 2018 2:58 AM IST

    The Flavour of Spice is a book focused on the spices used most often in Indian cooking, tracing their history as far back as possible, and investigating their mysteries deeply.Books
    A book born out of curiosity over spices

    Reshii eventually solved the kalpasi mystery, but it is her descriptions of situations like this that make her book so...

    3 Dec 2017 1:02 AM IST

    Smile by Roddy Doyle, Publisher: Jonathan Cape, Rs 449Books
    Book review: It doesn't leave you for days

    Victor's memories of school lead to memories of his life after school, as a speaker unafraid to share his opinions on...

    19 Nov 2017 1:31 AM IST

    Zanskar to Ziro: No Stilettos in the Himalayas by Sohini Sen, Niyogi Books, Rs 995Books
    Book review: It makes you fall in love with the hills

    I want to explore the Himalayas with this book, just as the author did, not zip past them.

    12 Nov 2017 1:13 AM IST

    The Deal of a Lifetime: A Novella by Fredrik Backman, Atria Books, Rs 853Books
    Book review: It tugs at your heart & hits at the same time

    The man never understood his son even as he grew up. The son loved his home town. He talked about things like happiness...

    5 Nov 2017 12:54 AM IST

    Piglettes by Clementine Beauvais Penguin Random House, Rs 960.Books
    Book review: A ride full of laughter, tears, sunshine

    Astrid, 16, is not as blas© as Mireille about winning the Pig Pageant.

    3 Sept 2017 2:43 AM IST

    Mrs C Remembers by Himanjali Sankar Pan Macmillan, Rs 299; 193 pagesBooks
    Book review: How a demented mind thinks

    Alzheimer's means that the connections Mrs C makes between the news and her family are not exactly straightforward.

    21 July 2017 12:10 AM IST

    The pink voting booths set up to celebrate first-time women voters in Goa. (Photo: Atish Naik)Opinion
    Go ahead EC, pink rules!

    EC would do well to have pink voting booths all around the country.

    12 Feb 2017 4:31 AM IST

    The pink voting booths set up to celebrate first-time women voters in Goa. (Photo: Atish Naik)Opinion
    Go ahead EC, pink rules!

    EC would do well to have pink voting booths all around the country.

    12 Feb 2017 4:31 AM IST

    Mohanaswamy by Vasudhendra, translated by Rashmi Terdal HarperCollins, Rs 399Books
    Book review: To be gay and sad in small-town India

    The story Bed Bug is about his friend Shankar Gowda, a transsexual treated like dirt by the same heterosexual men.

    5 Feb 2017 12:55 AM IST

    Dvarca by Madhav Mathur FingerPrint! Rs 295Books
    Book review: A world full of Nakuls, Vidurs and Narads

    Dvarca's world is separated from our own only by a small stretch of the imagination.

    15 Jan 2017 2:03 AM IST

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