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Book Review | The cobbler’s contribution
Review of 'The Shoemaker’s Stitch: Mochi Embroideries of Gujarat in the TAPI Collection' By Shilpa Shah and Rosemary Crill
25 Sep 2022 1:39 AM
Book Review | Sanjeev Kumar’s life ably reconstructed
Review of Sanjeev Kumar: The Actor We All Loved By Reeta Ramamurthy Gupta and Uday Jariwala
18 Sep 2022 1:34 AM
Book Review | The success and sacrifice of India’s last political hero
Excerpt from The Life and Times of George Fernandes By Rahul Ramagundam
18 Sep 2022 1:25 AM
Book Review | Love, and the dilemmas of devadasi life
A novel that beautifully echoes the sentiment of the Devadasi community
04 Sep 2022 2:13 AM
Book Review | A cleverly wound string of quirky-witty mindbenders
Everything in this quirky speculative fiction is about a search for essence
04 Sep 2022 2:08 AM
Book Review | A Bengali professor unscrambles the riddle of Berlin
A conversation with a friend who has returned from abroad and recounts his experiences
28 Aug 2022 12:03 AM
Book Review | Welcome to the political compass’ third dimension
Meghan Daum is crisp, elegant and wryly humorous, and does not dump her traumas on the reader.
28 Aug 2022 12:02 AM
Book Review | First among the equals of Old Bollywood’s heroes
Despite its hagiographic tone, Ashok Kumar's biography is genuinely informative, perceptive and loving.
28 Aug 2022 12:00 AM
Modi: The man who changed India’s politics
The book, Modi@20, Dreams Meet Delivery, is about his journey from Gujarat chief minister to the Prime Minister of India
21 Aug 2022 12:10 AM
Mending the loss of innocence with hard-won wisdom
Arjun Raj Gaind in his book tells the story of Punjab — a land that has witnessed Jallianwala Bagh massacre and has been cut into two parts
21 Aug 2022 12:05 AM
Obscurantism aside, time for India to seize the narrative
The problem, as Mr Sood explains, is that the West has dominated the world for more than four centuries now
21 Aug 2022 12:00 AM
Temples & dance history: The who, what, when and where of Kathak
In temples that the authors visited, they saw performers who were able to interact and improvise with the devotees to expound the stories
14 Aug 2022 12:05 AM
Yusuf of Peshawar who spotted talent, changed lives...
A few chapters into the book I had warmed up to the man people called the thespian
14 Aug 2022 12:02 AM
An introduction to vivid maths in lush and mellow Trinidad
If you like vibrant and provocative writing, you might like to dip into this book
07 Aug 2022 12:28 AM
Vish Dhamija’s Cold Justice delivers it hot!
This legal thriller has on trial a woman judge, a young accomplished and feared judge at that, who obviously has her set of enemies
07 Aug 2022 12:22 AM
Book Review | Naval playing field: How post-Partition Amritsar nurtured an elegant artiste
If the time and place played a significant role in the making of Naval, one can’t discount the influence of her rich antecedents either
23 Jul 2022 10:30 PM
Book Review | The superheroes of the shore continue to surprise and allure
These shifting battlegrounds are without villains, for the killers take what they need and no more
16 Jul 2022 11:55 PM
Book Review | Vivid, madcap stories with open endings
Mauzo’s stories not just embrace unconventional themes, they also border on the bizarre, but the best thing is their open-endings
03 Jul 2022 5:11 PM
Book excerpt: How I got the scoop on Lalit Modi’s BCCI exit and went on to broadcast it
That night in April, however, was different. The caller, I have to say in hindsight, influenced the decision-making to a large extent
03 Jul 2022 5:02 PM
Columns
Landmark Supreme Court judgments on Hindutva, communal rhetoric, and electoral politics
Drawing parallels between Mao Zedong's legacy and contemporary political dynamics in India.
Tracing the Transformation of India's "Second Capital" Over Decades
The Historical Ties of the Booker Prize Amidst Liz Truss's Authorial Rise