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Book Review | A Portrait of Society in Mughal Times

Book Review | A Portrait of Society in Mughal Times

A richly researched exploration of Mughal India that reveals how trade, merchants and markets shaped imperial power,...

14 Jun 2026 1:16 PM IST

Book Review | Deathbed Vigil Still Leaves Key Questions Unasked

Book Review | Deathbed Vigil Still Leaves Key Questions Unasked

George Saunders revisits themes of death, memory and redemption in a darkly comic afterlife tale, but its moral inquiry...

14 Jun 2026 1:14 PM IST

Book Review | Surrealist Fiction Can Be Humorous

Book Review | Surrealist Fiction Can Be Humorous

The story, about the effect of the arrival of a vacuum cleaner salesman on the people of a small town, was not just...

6 Jun 2026 2:26 PM IST

Book Review | Christ As A Buddhist Monk?

Book Review | Christ As A Buddhist Monk?

Fr. Dara travels to Cambridge to meet Banko, tasked with translating the manuscript. Dhondy adds an intriguing...

6 Jun 2026 2:12 PM IST

Book Review | K. Sundarji: Scholar-soldier And Mobile Warfare Proponent

Book Review | K. Sundarji: Scholar-soldier And Mobile Warfare...

Widely known as a forward thinking “scholar-warrior”, the ‘TamBram’ (Tamil Brahmin) Sundarji brought technology-driven,...

6 Jun 2026 1:14 PM IST

Book Review | A Parliamentarian’s Almanac Reveals the Government’s Warts

Book Review | A Parliamentarian’s Almanac Reveals the Government’s...

The government and media made the Opposition invisible. O’Brien draws back the curtain

30 May 2026 1:17 PM IST

Book Review | A Visual Archive of Mumbai Through Cuisine

Book Review | A Visual Archive of Mumbai Through Cuisine

There’s a certain visual language that lays out the mosaic of the chaotic beauty of Indian cities charms both local and...

30 May 2026 1:15 PM IST

Book Review | A Powerful Novel About Sisterly Love

Book Review | A Powerful Novel About Sisterly Love

No Such Thing as Monday is a powerful novel written with such charm that you don’t get lost in gloom despite the sadness

30 May 2026 1:13 PM IST

Book Review | The Horror Of War Through The Prism Of Sci-fi

Book Review | The Horror Of War Through The Prism Of Sci-fi

The war is fought amid literal fog on a largely monochromatic battlefield. The empire is grey; the enemy, white; deadly...

23 May 2026 10:59 PM IST

Book Review | An Elephant Fable Asks Us To Be Human

Book Review | An Elephant Fable Asks Us To Be Human

We’re barely into the third para of Gajraj, still you don’t need a thesaurus to understand that “the barely clothed...

23 May 2026 10:39 PM IST

Book Review | No Money, No Problem

Book Review | No Money, No Problem

The authors scouted for success stories that germinated through resource constraints, sometimes filling a gap that...

23 May 2026 9:14 PM IST

Book Review | Study on Ancient Indian Women Skips the Essentials

Book Review | Study on Ancient Indian Women Skips the Essentials

The author does acknowledge some limitations late in the book: his three disclaimers refer to geography, theory vs...

16 May 2026 3:40 PM IST