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Book Review | What pooped on my step and other whodunits
This is a book that would be anagreeable gift for young daughters and sons or nieces and nephews.
09 Jul 2023 12:15 AM
Book Review | American slams J&K policy but doesn’t factor Islamist militancy
It took the author 15 years to rustle up a book on his Kashmir experiences.
09 Jul 2023 12:05 AM
Book Review | T.N. Seshan enforced the rulebook, gave EC its formidable reputation
Many believe that Seshan put the fear of the Election Commission in the hearts of politicians.
09 Jul 2023 12:05 AM
Book review | Slow & lovely dive into a middle class Indian girl’s young angst
The entire book is about secrets. Secrets held by Mallika, the protagonist
03 Jul 2023 1:04 AM
Book Review | C.N. Annadurai’s witty social realism lost in translation
Annadurai's fame as a politician tends to overshadow his accomplishments as a storyteller
03 Jul 2023 12:46 AM
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 and Birdwatching’
03 Jul 2023 12:38 AM
Book Review | Finance ministers who shaped early post-Independence India
What struck this reviewer was how many FMs resigned from office in those early days — a practice that ended soonafter
03 Jul 2023 12:19 AM
Book Review | Sketch of two charismatic PMs whose errors cost India dearly
The author relates with honesty the flaws and strengths Rajiv Gandhi, then seen as ‘India’s John F Kennedy’.
25 Jun 2023 12:50 AM
Book Review | Rural India gets ready for a feminist romp
While the book starts off all sedate and serious, the author suddenly decides to let her hair down and turns it into a full blown romp
25 Jun 2023 12:45 AM
Book Review | The Viraraghavans of Kodaikanal and their zany roses
'Roses in the Fire of Spring' is both a tribute and documentation of the work of two intrepid rosarians
25 Jun 2023 12:43 AM
Gandhi Peace Prize 2021 to be conferred on Gita Press
Gita Press is one of the world's largest publishers, having published 41.7 crore books in 14 languages
19 Jun 2023 12:52 AM
Book Review | Elephant fable packs an environment message
This story of good and evil is also the story of finding one’s hidden strength in the midst of trying times.
18 Jun 2023 7:04 AM
Book Review | The pioneering and pivotal thought of Anaximander
Rovelli makes it clear from the beginning that this book is not the history of the discoveries of Anaximander.
18 Jun 2023 12:10 AM
Book Review | Vintage Atwood in 7 elegant sketches of family, loss!
Old Babes in the Wood is at its shimmering best in a set of linked stories about a couple, Nell and Tig.
18 Jun 2023 12:03 AM
Book Review | A refreshingly original fiction on power of ragas
The short easy read is a mere 137 pages, but laudably, refreshingly original.
04 Jun 2023 12:41 AM
Book Review | Convention-bound aesthetic, too many subplots clutter up big picture
Historically significant characters flit in and out of the book.
04 Jun 2023 12:37 AM
Book Review | The Guantanamo trauma and Abu Zubaydah’s unbearable secrets
Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy are two of the world’s best known investigative writers with several acclaimed books to their name.
04 Jun 2023 12:31 AM
Book Review | Talking Indo-Pak peace on the back channel with open eyes
The special thing is that from the facts before him, Lambah has produced a new way of seeing.
28 May 2023 12:46 AM
Book Review | So many reasons to love these proud women of Jasmine Villa...
Wajid puts her heroines through emotional turmoil. The writing is decent with good surprise twists in the plot that take the readers unaware
28 May 2023 12:10 AM
Book Review | Krishnagopal Mallick, an unsung literary pioneer
The credit for ‘discovering’ Krishnagopal Mallick goes to university professor and novelist Niladri R. Chatterjee
28 May 2023 12:10 AM
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