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Book Review | Can Theatre Reunite, Offer Redemption?

Book Review | Can Theatre Reunite, Offer Redemption?

The Comeback is the story of Jaun Kazim and Asghar Abbasi who have been best friends since their college days in Baansa,...

3 May 2025 12:56 PM IST

Book Review | Two female friends navigate ’80s and ’90s India

Book Review | Two female friends navigate ’80s and ’90s India

This slim book tells the story of two friends from the bylanes of Old Delhi, charting their family histories and...

12 April 2025 12:39 PM IST

Book Review | Solving the final puzzle of death

Book Review | Solving the final puzzle of death

Ramakrishnan takes us through several streams of thought, some interconnected, some independent, which appear to be...

12 April 2025 11:43 AM IST

Book Review | The how and when of Neeraj Chopra

Book Review | The how and when of Neeraj Chopra

Norris Pritam has used his own experience as an athlete, bolstered with the four decades of experience as a sports...

12 April 2025 11:26 AM IST

Book Review | India’s Paralympic queen tells her story

Book Review | India’s Paralympic queen tells her story

In 1983 American Art Berg suffered a major head concussion and a broken neck in a car accident and ended up...

15 March 2025 12:14 PM IST

Book Review | Quirky epic set in WW2 Calcutta

Book Review | Quirky epic set in WW2 Calcutta

On page 450, exactly halfway through Great Eastern Hotel, Ruchir Joshi’s 900-page behemoth of a historical novel,...

15 March 2025 12:05 PM IST

Book Review | India doing well to avoid Western cues on diplomacy

Book Review | India doing well to avoid Western cues on diplomacy

In the old days a diplomat was known as a plenipotentiary, the very term suggesting gravity and pomposity. Much of...

15 March 2025 11:56 AM IST

Book Review | Gaza: Shaped by external forces, own resilience

Book Review | Gaza: Shaped by external forces, own resilience

Jean-Pierre Filiu’s Gaza: A History (second edition), expertly translated by Tom King, is a sweeping historical...

22 Feb 2025 12:50 PM IST

Book Review | Stories that showcase Mumbai’s soul

Book Review | Stories that showcase Mumbai’s soul

Mumbai, Bombay, the Big Mango, is the city of the subcontinent with the greatest diversity of class, religions,...

22 Feb 2025 12:47 PM IST

Book Review | Colonialism, climate and other ‘wild fictions’

Book Review | Colonialism, climate and other ‘wild fictions’

It may be said of literary careers, if you don’t mind humouring a simplistic analogy from Hindustani classical...

22 Feb 2025 12:46 PM IST

Book Review | What is key to hope after Gaza

Book Review | What is key to hope after Gaza

Gaza has been the setting of a kind of savagery that the world has not witnessed in recent times. The October 2023...

15 Feb 2025 12:03 PM IST