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Contested Lands: India, China and the Boundary Dispute By Maroof Raza. (Amazon photo)

Book Review | Crouching Elephant, Hidden Dragon: This history is not...

The resulting shortcomings in dealing with the Chinese have cost India dearly in terms of its security and progress

20 Nov 2021 7:55 PM IST

Karunanidhi: A Life By A.S. Panneerselvan. (Amazon Photo)

Book Review | Truths about M. Karunanidhi & perspectives on Tamil...

One of the key takeaways in the book is the articulation of Karunanidhi's position vis-a-vis the Sri Lankan Tamil issue

20 Nov 2021 7:52 PM IST

Book cover of All Roads Lead North by Amish Raj Mulmi. (Photo: Goodreads)

Book review | All Roads Lead North

A handshake across Himalayas, amid Terai rumblings

21 Jun 2021 11:48 AM IST

A scripture-quoting narrator with tongue firmly in cheek relates the story of a devious zamindar and moneylender in a village in Odisha. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | An Odia literary star's fine vignettes, wicked wit and...

While the book deals with dark subjects, the hand that writes it is beautifully light, and gives you many occasions to...

20 Jun 2021 12:30 AM IST

In his short, intense, sad but artistically fruitful life Guru Dutt managed to communicate with a large audience who paid to see his films and sustained his production company; an absolute necessity in commercial Hindi cinema. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | The eloquent outsider, lovingly remembered...

Guru Dutt had the rare ability of being loved and commanding the loyalty of those who came in contact with him

20 Jun 2021 12:20 AM IST

Salmans essay is not unsympathetic to the hijras and charts the structure of their social existence and pleads for some attention to the risks they face through HIV and AIDS. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | Fantasy beats autofiction, but magic realism' trounced...

Salman contends that publishing today favours the revealing, racially, sexually and culturally situated autobiography

20 Jun 2021 12:10 AM IST

The book comes with a list of questions for reading club discussions. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | Bookseller's love story in wartime Paris shows past is...

Fast paced, the book, though a work of fiction, has been well researched and with historical sources cited

6 Jun 2021 9:27 AM IST

This is clearly a book that needs to be read over an extended period of time. (Photo: Goodreads)

Book Review | Hobsbawm's choice: When logic rejects nationalism...

Britain's best-known historian, Eric Hobsbawm, traverses a similar path in his writings on Nationalism

6 Jun 2021 9:18 AM IST

The title of Ritwiks novel is a metaphor for our times. (Photo: Goodreads)

Book Review | An insider's view on elite publishing in Indian Right's...

The book gives us an opportunity to have an insider's view of the Indian publishing world

6 Jun 2021 9:11 AM IST

The condensed-reading idea on apps is appealing to time-starved readers, but raising the heckles of the traditional bookworms.

Millennials prefer physical books over digital versions: Study

Psychological ownership is important in peoples perception of how they value certain products or services or objects.

23 May 2018 3:33 PM IST

There are reasons children have summer break in schools - first, to provide ample of bonding time with family and second, to help kids nurture their personalities. (Photo: Pixabay)

5 tips to make summer holidays exciting

There is a big chunk of summer holidays that could be utilised to polish the child's personality.

23 May 2018 8:43 AM IST

I always loved to read, especially romance novels. From Alexandre Dumas The Three Muskeeteers to Nicholas Sparks The Notebook, I loved them all, says Ishita Deshmukh.

In the aftermath of Bhuj Earthquake, two attempt discover the...

I never thought to write about it, until it became my class assignment - Ishita Deshmukh.

29 Dec 2018 3:35 PM IST