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Book Review | Pakistan, to a woman’s eyes

Book Review | Pakistan, to a woman’s eyes

A Pakistan posting for an Indian diplomat is both a challenge and an opportunity of a lifetime. It is doubly...

31 Aug 2024 1:52 PM IST

Book Review | First-wave Indian feminist who was multi-talented

Book Review | First-wave Indian feminist who was multi-talented

I write this review with mixed feelings. I asked for this book, because Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay is such an...

31 Aug 2024 1:46 PM IST

Book Review | Punjabi social realism, subtle & hard-hitting

Book Review | Punjabi social realism, subtle & hard-hitting

Hard-hitting is a mild word for this collection of short stories by Hindi author and playwright Swadesh...

31 Aug 2024 1:40 PM IST

Book Review | Gardens are a way of life in Delhi

Book Review | Gardens are a way of life in Delhi

Originally a ‘semi-desert’, the history of Delhi can be traced through its gardens. The very first trees planted...

3 Aug 2024 11:25 AM IST

Jadu seems destined to succeed. His mother, pregnant with him, survives a cobra bite, delivers him, and, in later years, delivers two more children, both girls, one of whom dies after a mysterious encounter with a fox . DC Image

Book Review | The '30s-born Bihari man's best life

Book Review | The '30s-born Bihari man's best life

13 July 2024 5:27 PM IST

Book Review | Tam Bram Wedding A Draw In Washington

Book Review | Tam Bram Wedding A Draw In Washington

Washingtonil Thirumanam was first serialised in the popular Tamil weekly, Ananda Vikatan in the early ’60s

3 May 2025 12:59 PM IST

Book Review | Facebook Unmasked By Page-Turner

Book Review | Facebook Unmasked By Page-Turner

Wynn-Williams’ journey with Facebook is chequered, uncharted and completely out of the box, just as her travels and...

3 May 2025 12:58 PM IST

Book Review | Can Theatre Reunite, Offer Redemption?

Book Review | Can Theatre Reunite, Offer Redemption?

The Comeback is the story of Jaun Kazim and Asghar Abbasi who have been best friends since their college days in Baansa,...

3 May 2025 12:56 PM IST

Book Review | ‘I Write Lest I Succumb to Savagery’

Book Review | ‘I Write Lest I Succumb to Savagery’

The haunting title for this piece is taken from one of the editors, Al-Zaqzooq’s own heart-wrenching prose account of...

27 April 2025 1:05 AM IST

Book Review | A Challenging Thought Anthology On The Idea of India

Book Review | A Challenging Thought Anthology On The Idea of India

There would be many who will argue that other schools of thought, especially the Charvakas, or the Materialist School,...

27 April 2025 1:02 AM IST

Book Review | Prepare for slow reading and much thinking

Book Review | Prepare for slow reading and much thinking

Human life as we know it is on the brink of extinction, and several communities are tasked to preserve life under the...

27 April 2025 12:59 AM IST

Book Review | A Nobel Laureate’s Sense of Snow

Book Review | A Nobel Laureate’s Sense of Snow

A message from a close friend and professional partner, a photographer, Inseon, wakes Kyungha from this existence....

19 April 2025 7:32 PM IST