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Four Australians will ride across India to help poor kids
The four have collaborated with CRY (Child Rights and You) for research work and other assistance.
03 Mar 2017 2:35 AM
Eggs, bananas in mid-day meals
This is the first time in the country that a state government has extended the scheme to higher classes.
01 Mar 2017 5:48 AM
Soon, drink water from taps directly
According to DJB officials, if the areas will get 24x7 water supply, there will be zero chance of contamination in tap water.
27 Feb 2017 5:18 AM
DJB plan on sewage water treatment to get fresh push
This time, the DJB is going ahead with some modifications.
25 Feb 2017 7:12 AM
DJB will revise policy on pipelines to plug leakages
Water authority identifies vulnerable points where maximum contamination takes place.
22 Feb 2017 1:54 AM
‘New vacuum cleaning machines not before April’
As of now, only a handful of machines are being cleaned.
01 Feb 2017 2:34 AM
A supernatural tale of murder and desire
The last time I was so overwhelmed by storytelling that I didn’t even notice that the book I was reading was minus a plot, it was 2004 and I was lost in the Sundarbans of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tid
30 Oct 2016 1:47 AM
A chronicle of two countries and lives in letters
In a reading career of about 40 years, I’ve come across many, many misleading blurbs, but few as downright deceptive as the one on the back cover of Antara Ganguli’s Tanya Tania.
25 Sep 2016 7:14 AM
Capturing the reality of violence
If you’ve never experienced it, institutionalised violence is incredibly hard to imagine, however strong your power of empathy.
28 Aug 2016 2:13 AM
England, Jerusalem and a life in sepia
There must some irony in this, though to be honest, I’m not certain exactly where: the second I finished reading a historical novel that is mainly atmosphere and not much substance, I started singing
24 Jul 2016 1:38 AM
Life, the way greed shapes it
I think I may once, in my youth, have been to a nightclub in Mumbai a bit like Tram 83, the one in the eponymous book by Fiston Mwanza Mujila, translated from the French by Roland Glasser.
19 Jun 2016 12:42 AM
Trauma beneath a picture perfect life
I must begin my review of Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll with a disclaimer: after I finished it, I was totally confused.
05 Jun 2016 1:55 AM
Matters of size and soulmates
Maybe it’s because I’m middle-aged that where once I thought chick-lit was cute, today I think it’s sad and old. I was the target audience when the genre officially launched with Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding some 20-plus years ago (not that it had never existed earlier — according to my sister, even Pride and Prejudice is chick-lit). By now I’m tired of young women being self-deprecating about their inexplicable need to find a boyfriend/husband, however funny they are about the lack of romance/true love in their lives.
30 Apr 2016 10:51 PM
A whodunnit that kills with laughter
Much can be forgiven, especially a writer who comes up with the deadliest name in all crime fiction: Deadlyappa. And then, not content with that, creates Head Nurse Kolaveri, known to her juniors as Kolaveri Didi.
09 Apr 2016 9:55 PM
The immigrant book I’d been waiting for
Making enthusiastic noises about books by Abeer Y. Hoque seems to be becoming quite a habit for me.
20 Mar 2016 6:08 AM
Laughter that doesn’t reach the eyes
Pre-publication praise does not always do a book good. It can create expectations that are truly hard for the author to live up to. Sometimes the anticipation and subsequent disappointment can even put a reader off a new-to-her author for life.
30 Jan 2016 8:27 PM
Video, vagrant love and violent revenge
The only way to make clear to you my confusion over Lady Lolita’s Lover by R.
15 Nov 2015 2:13 AM
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