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Cover of A Burning by Megha Majumdar.

Telling the India story, one dream at a time

'A Burning' is an intimate and clear-eyed rendering of the lives and dreams of three people

18 Oct 2020 7:57 PM IST

Cover page of Pilgrim Nation: The Making of Bharatvarsh.

BOOK REVIEW | Preachy tone mars this quirky history of local...

If you are familiar with Pattanaik's earlier books, you will also note that this book is not quite in his usual style

22 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST

Cover page of Srilaaji: The Gilded Life and Longings of a Marwari Goodwife.

BOOK REVIEW | Marwari housewife's sexcapades end on a surprisingly...

This book started out with promise, if only because of the dysfunctional family Srilaa grew up in

22 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST

VP Menon: The Unsung Architect of Moder

BOOK REVIEW | A whitewashed portrait shorn of biases, insights

For this reviewer, the fact that a book has been written about V.P. Menon is insufficient.

3 Nov 2020 1:47 AM IST

Cover page of The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R

Book REVIEW | The importance of being earnest in a villainish and...

The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R. is not a political novel. It's a novel set in politics, but it's about Ruby and no...

20 Dec 2020 8:21 AM IST

Cover page of Khaki in Dust Storm

Book REVIEW | A maverick cop's gripping autobiography

The heart of the book is gripping not on account of any juicy, lazy gossip about key people

20 Dec 2020 7:41 AM IST

Cover page of Feral Dreams Mowgli and His Mothers

Book REVIEW | How Mowgli grew up, grew old and loved his mothers

The book chronicles Daniel's journey in life, from the jungle to civilisation, from childhood till his sixties

6 Dec 2020 10:03 AM IST

Cover page of Healers or Predators?: Healthcare Corruption in India

Book REVIEW | The good doctor's submissions

The book's many, well-researched papers dealt with the larger issue of the state of healthcare in India

6 Dec 2020 9:16 AM IST

Cover page of An Island by Karen Jennings

Book review | Taut psychological thriller asks key political questions

It never feels like a dense psychological thriller, even though that is exactly what it is

10 Oct 2021 11:06 AM IST

Cover page of Earthspinner by Anuradha Roy

Book review | Of teachers, creativity, change and other forces that...

The story traverses the lives of different social groups, making a comment here and there about the changes in society

10 Oct 2021 10:57 AM IST

Cover page of Banaras: of Gods, Humans and Stories

Book review | Two exquisite odes to a pair of ancient cities

Part-history, part-travelogue and part-reportage, Biswas and Nabi's extensive work traces the evolution of Shiva's home...

10 Oct 2021 10:31 AM IST

Cover page of The Light of Asia

Book review | Strange life of a poem that revealed Buddha to world

Jairam Ramesh's Light of Asia, there can be no doubt, is an altogether satisfying and successful experiment

10 Oct 2021 10:21 AM IST