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Book Review | Giving wings to amateur birders

Book Review | Giving wings to amateur birders

Aasheesh's collection of essays, written over nearly four decades, makes justice to the phrase The Pleasures of Birds...

3 July 2023 12:38 AM IST

The chronological narrative follows three themes. First a brief overview of the budgets presented by each FM a refresher for fiscal policy wonks and deeply instructive for eager learners. Second, an informed and lively peek into the personal dynamics between the Prime Minister (PM) and each FM and between each FM and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) all situated within the political economy context over the three decades. (Image By Arrangement)

Book Review | Finance ministers who shaped early post-Independence...

What struck this reviewer was how many FMs resigned from office in those early days a practice that ended soonafter

3 July 2023 12:19 AM IST

Cover photo of The Bird Man of India: Salim Ali for Children by Zai Whitaker. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Salim Ali: An unlikely beginning, a great end

It's the author's well-founded belief that Salim Ali's life offers today's children a role model.

27 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Cover photo of In the Body of a Woman: Essays on Law, Gender and Society by Aaliya Waziri. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Angsty examination of our body of laws through lens of...

What Waziri lays bare are the inequalities of our gender laws. The insensitivity of our judicial pronouncements.

27 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Book Review | Doughty subaltern teen beats trafficking, shows community new future

Book Review | Doughty subaltern teen beats trafficking, shows...

There is intrigue, excitement, suspense and action.

20 Aug 2023 12:27 AM IST

Cover photo of How Prime Ministers Decide, by Neerja Chowdhury. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Secrets & surprises: Oral testimonies of India's...

What Chowdhury unfolds is an engrossing narrative of event, turns out to be a political thriller.

20 Aug 2023 12:15 AM IST

Cover photo of An Unfinished Search by Rashmi Narzary. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | A family's quest amid shifting sands of identity

The author has dedicated the book to the rootless, separated, identity-less people, victims of war and Partition.

20 Aug 2023 12:08 AM IST

Cover photo of The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | An English garden opens window to healing

Odd though it may seem, this sadness that you don't expect to find in a feel-good book is what makes it work so well.

13 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Cover photo of A Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo: The Life and Times of Syud Hossain by N.S. Vinodh. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Why India forgot Syud Hossain, its first ambassador to...

For those seeking to understand the context of the Khilafat Movement, the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, look no further.

13 Aug 2023 12:05 AM IST

Cover photo of Smoke and Ashes: A Writers Journey through Opiums Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | White is might in opium memoir that unmasks Britain,...

In Smoke and Ashes, his new book of nonfiction, Ghosh returns to opium.

6 Aug 2023 12:16 AM IST

Cover photo of The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | 3 generations of family grapple with curse

Nothing in this novel sets off a yawn because we meet people from all walks of life.

6 Aug 2023 12:12 AM IST

Memoirs of a Maverick: The First 50 Years (1941-1991) By Mani Shankar Aiyar. (Image DC)

Politics, Pakistan were the two fatal attractions of Aiyar's life

Do we really believe all Pakistanis are jihadis

24 Sept 2023 12:00 AM IST