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Cover photo of Centres of Power: My Years in the Prime Ministers Office and Security Council. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Sketch of two charismatic PMs whose errors cost India...

The author relates with honesty the flaws and strengths Rajiv Gandhi, then seen as India's John F Kennedy'.

25 Jun 2023 12:50 AM IST

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Book Review | Rural India gets ready for a feminist romp

While the book starts off all sedate and serious, the author suddenly decides to let her hair down and turns it into a...

25 Jun 2023 12:45 AM IST

Roses in the Fire of Spring: Better Roses for a Warming World & Other Garden Adventures

Book Review | The Viraraghavans of Kodaikanal and their zany roses

'Roses in the Fire of Spring' is both a tribute and documentation of the work of two intrepid rosarians

25 Jun 2023 12:43 AM IST

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Book Review | The pioneering and pivotal thought of Anaximander

Rovelli makes it clear from the beginning that this book is not the history of the discoveries of Anaximander.

18 Jun 2023 12:10 AM IST

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Book Review | Elephant fable packs an environment message

This story of good and evil is also the story of finding one's hidden strength in the midst of trying times.

18 Jun 2023 7:04 AM IST

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Book Review | Vintage Atwood in 7 elegant sketches of family, loss!

Old Babes in the Wood is at its shimmering best in a set of linked stories about a couple, Nell and Tig.

18 Jun 2023 12:03 AM IST

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Book Review | Illness as a metaphor for the Indian condition

All in all, a book that draws attention to the vibrancy of writing in the bhashas and the range and variety of topics...

11 Jun 2023 12:24 AM IST

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Book Review | Lockdown and the homemaker blues

Well written enough that I got through it without wanting to bang my head against a wall.

11 Jun 2023 12:18 AM IST

Cover photo of Vajpayee: The Ascent of Hindu Right 1924-1977 by Abhishek Chaudhary. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Vajpayee never a liberal but Hindu Right's first spin...

Perhaps, he can be said to be the first of spin-doctors of the Hindu right, where conviction was not necessary,...

11 Jun 2023 12:28 AM IST

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Book Review | The Guantanamo trauma and Abu Zubaydah's unbearable...

Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy are two of the world's best known investigative writers with several acclaimed books...

4 Jun 2023 12:31 AM IST

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Book Review | Convention-bound aesthetic, too many subplots clutter up...

Historically significant characters flit in and out of the book.

4 Jun 2023 12:37 AM IST

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Book Review | A refreshingly original fiction on power of ragas

The short easy read is a mere 137 pages, but laudably, refreshingly original.

4 Jun 2023 12:41 AM IST