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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

Book Review | A primer in greed

Book Review | A primer in greed

The opening chapter of the book engages, like a good spy thriller — a bunch of possibly sinister photographs, a...

15 Feb 2025 12:02 PM IST

Book Review | A charming whodunit with thrills & humour

Book Review | A charming whodunit with thrills & humour

After a breakdown that led to early retirement, Neville Wadia, revered in the force as one of Mumbai’s...

25 Jan 2025 12:58 PM IST

Book Review | A true-grit politician of ideas

Book Review | A true-grit politician of ideas

The word, ‘maverick’, does not really describe Mani Shankar Aiyar in his political avatar. He got into...

25 Jan 2025 12:50 PM IST

Book Review | A village bookstore or hidden paradise?

Book Review | A village bookstore or hidden paradise?

It’s a coincidence that as we wrote this, we also got the news of the passing away of Leonard Riggio, the...

25 Jan 2025 12:46 PM IST

Book Review | Diligently unfurling Ghalib

Book Review | Diligently unfurling Ghalib

The cover of this diligent and elegant introduction to Ghalib’s life and work —for the academic as well as...

18 Jan 2025 12:29 PM IST