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Cover photo of The Birth Lottery and Other Surprises by Shehan Karunatilaka (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Discoveries from the desk of a Booker winner

These stories remind us of the author of the DSC Prize winning Chinaman and the Booker Prize winning The Seven Moons of...

23 Oct 2022 1:21 AM IST

Cover photo of Challenges to a Liberal Polity by M. Hamid Ansari (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Missed chance to bring nuance to the conversation on...

Review of 'Challenges to a Liberal Polity' by M. Hamid Ansari

9 Oct 2022 1:23 AM IST

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Book Review | An unconventional debut that still misses the plot

Review of 'C: A Novel' by Anupama Raju

9 Oct 2022 1:18 AM IST

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Book Review | Crime pays for this British-Indian author

Review of 'Evil at the Core' By Vinquita Romaine

9 Oct 2022 1:09 AM IST

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Book Review | Grief in verse, portrayed arrestingly

Review of 'These Errors Are Correct' By Jeet Thayil

2 Oct 2022 1:17 AM IST

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Book Review | Rowling's edgy whodunit isn't all that controversial

Review of 'The Ink Black Heart' By Robert Galbraith

2 Oct 2022 1:05 AM IST

Cover photo of Border Less by Namrata Poddar (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | People aren't too different, in Mumbai or in U.S.

Book Review of 'Border Less' by Namrata Poddar

27 Nov 2022 1:47 AM IST

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Book Review | Love tangles with family as Great Calcutta Killings rage

Book Review of 'Independence' by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

27 Nov 2022 1:44 AM IST

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Book Review | India@75: Talking heads take stock, list challenges

Book Review of 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav: India@75' edited by Surendra Kumar

27 Nov 2022 1:42 AM IST

Cover photo of Black River by Nilanjana S. Roy (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | The soul of a river, poured into saga of fatherhood and...

Roy's success lies in the fact that it is actually comforting to read her work not just for the clarity but also the...

20 Nov 2022 1:40 AM IST

Cover photo of The Education of Yuri by Jerry Pinto (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Quasi-autobiographical & sanitised trip back to 1980s'...

There's a disquieting view of the country's education system, as Yuri discovers in preparing for the tuitions that...

20 Nov 2022 1:38 AM IST

Cover Photo of Rethink Ageing: Lessons in Ageing from the Older and Bolder Generation by Reshmi Chakraborty and Nidhi Chawla (Photo: By arrangement)

Book Review | Who's afraid of growing old?

The book, strangely, given my pessimism about ageing, made me smile

20 Nov 2022 1:35 AM IST