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Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore KumarBooks
Book review: Lata, with malice towards none at all...

The book has carefully avoided anything which has the faintest semblance of controversy.

28 May 2017 12:38 AM IST

Book review: Romancing the past, fauji styleBooks
Book review: Romancing the past, fauji style

At heart, this book is about a love affair between a peacenik and a pilot with war as the backdrop.

28 May 2017 12:28 AM IST

Mrs C Remembers by Himanjali Sankar Pan Macmillan, Rs 299; 193 pagesBooks
Book review: How a demented mind thinks

Alzheimer's means that the connections Mrs C makes between the news and her family are not exactly straightforward.

21 July 2017 12:10 AM IST

Book review: The poignant record of an era gone byBooks
Book review: The poignant record of an era gone by

Books have indeed been written about the end of British colonialism and the start of an independent new world.

21 July 2017 12:10 AM IST

Khullam Khulla: Rishi Kapoor Uncensored by Rishi Kapoor and Meena Iyer HarperCollins, Rs 599Books
Book review: Straight from the heart Kapoor style

Film personalities, specially leading men of Bollywood, hardly considered it worthwhile to go back in time.

5 March 2017 2:42 AM IST

Jinnah before his marriageBooks
Book review: Jinnah, pursuing love with equal precision

The wedding ceremony itself couldn't have been more primly respectable.

5 March 2017 2:36 AM IST

Bite of the Black Dogs by Sanjay Bahadur Hachette, Rs 399Books
Book review: An actual record of conflict in J&K

The special forces are trained and motivated to take missions like the one mentioned in the book.

30 July 2017 2:34 AM IST

The Front Page Murders by Puja Changoiwala Hachette, Rs 350Books
Book review: The curious case of a serial killer

The book would have made for a more satisfyingly meaty read if the readers got a brief idea of the criminal psychology...

30 July 2017 2:36 AM IST

The Lovers by Amitava Kumar Aleph, Rs 599Books
Book review: Making fiction out of nothing at all

The author is a great writer, of non-fiction. Sadly, his hold over what makes for good fiction is lacking.

30 July 2017 2:38 AM IST

The Small-Town Sea by Anees Salim Penguin Random House, Rs 599.Books
Book review: Where death plays like a broken record

The problem with writing similar books so quickly together is that the Dickensian pathos Salim is trying to achieve is...

21 May 2017 1:07 AM IST

Haulianlal GuiteBooks
Blurring the lines between science and religion

Mr Guite questions atheists over their claim that religion and God are matter of faith while atheism is scientific and...

19 May 2017 1:13 AM IST

From Inside The Steel Frame by Ashok Pandey, Palimpsest Publishers Rs 339Books
2016 was a year of books, books and more books

Gautam Padmanabhan, CEO, Westland Ltd finds 2016 as a year of steady growth at Westland.

30 Dec 2016 2:42 AM IST

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