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Book Review | The Other Bleak House

Book Review | The Other Bleak House

It is a bleak setting, but the slow-paced engagement with memories, slipping identities and metaphors is presented by...

20 Sept 2025 3:19 PM IST

Book Review | True Story of Journalist Growing up in a Kotha

Book Review | True Story of Journalist Growing up in a Kotha

Manish or Monty (named after Rishi Kapoor in Karz) is born in a squalid kotha in north Calcutta’s Bandook Gully, amidst...

6 Sept 2025 1:54 PM IST

Book Review | Innovation Migrates from Silicon Valley

Book Review | Innovation Migrates from Silicon Valley

This mapping of technological innovations is an allegory for the complexities of cultures, competition and collaboration...

6 Sept 2025 1:49 PM IST

Book Review | In Love with Life, Cricket & Women

Book Review | In Love with Life, Cricket & Women

What sets Shikhar Dhawan’s ghosted autobiography apart is the honesty with which he has recounted his life as well as...

6 Sept 2025 1:47 PM IST

Book Review | Pujara: A Wife’s-Eye View

Book Review | Pujara: A Wife’s-Eye View

As expected, this is a eulogy, but there are areas that seem too sterilised to be interesting

30 Aug 2025 1:53 PM IST

Book Review | A Mother-Daughter Love Saga

Book Review | A Mother-Daughter Love Saga

A tribute to a difficult mother, this book is equally about the writer’s journey from a young girl to an accomplished...

30 Aug 2025 1:51 PM IST

Book Review | Doc Who Tried to Stop Partition

Book Review | Doc Who Tried to Stop Partition

After Independence, Davar continued to play an important role with the refugees who flooded Delhi, and he was Nehru’s...

16 Aug 2025 1:36 PM IST

Book Review | Mysterious House Pays Witness to Awakenings

Book Review | Mysterious House Pays Witness to Awakenings

Beautifully written, and with a solid plot in place, it’s not surprising that this debut novel was shortlisted for the...

16 Aug 2025 1:35 PM IST

Book Review | Fierce Interrogation into Moral State of Our World

Book Review | Fierce Interrogation into Moral State of Our World

Small Boat, French author and philosopher Vincent Delecroix’s taut, whiplash of a novella, turns on these true events to...

16 Aug 2025 1:26 PM IST

Book Review | A Close Look at Indian Diaspora

Book Review | A Close Look at Indian Diaspora

If during the colonial period, it was “wealth drain” as pointed out by Dadabhai Naoroji and Gopal Krishna Gokhale, it...

9 Aug 2025 2:20 PM IST

Book Review | Combo of Ludlum, Brown and Indiana Jones

Book Review | Combo of Ludlum, Brown and Indiana Jones

The author goes on to observe in the end that force — strength — is the only way to preserve peace, but the evidence...

9 Aug 2025 2:14 PM IST

Book Review | Did President’s Hubby Kill the Cheerleader?

Book Review | Did President’s Hubby Kill the Cheerleader?

It is a thriller plain and simple, and one designed to captivate the average reader and keep her hooked till the last...

9 Aug 2025 2:07 PM IST