Aloke Roy Chowdhury, Deccan Chronicle

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A discerning but prolific reader, one of India�??s most respected publishers, who understands the business of books, loves clever cinema and reads crime fiction compulsively. Email him at archome40@gmail.com.

Books and Art

Book Review | Crisp whodunits, cute investigators

The first volume is largely a selection of stories of private investigators “following the whodunit template” as...

13 July 2024 11:29 AM

Lifestyle

Book Review | Magical and unfinished, ‘lost’ novel leaves mysteries...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of the world’s greatest story tellers, died in 2014. Ten years after his death his children...

12 May 2024 7:26 AM

Books and Art

Book Review | Editor’s honesty forges unlikely friendship in world of...

Ramachandra Guha is a versatile writer. He has received international recognition for his writings on environmental...

17 March 2024 6:12 AM

Lifestyle

Book Review | Writer’s muse parses a Victorian court drama

Zadie Smith’s novel encompasses the Tichborne case but its scope is far wider. Our starting point is the household of...

25 Feb 2024 6:47 AM

$Book Review | Irish Dystopia and a Mother\s Survival Fight$ Lifestyle

Book Review | Irish Dystopia and a Mother-'s Survival Fight

It is a serious work of fiction written in a style which demands the reader's focus

14 Oct 2023 9:04 PM

Lifestyle

Unpacking the modern family, its ambitions and uncertainties

A Small Sacrifice for an Enormous Happiness is his second literary endeavour

16 Sept 2023 6:30 PM

Lifestyle

Book Review | A family's quest amid shifting sands of identity

Deep in the winter of 1857, a group of about 200 sepoys belonging to the 34th Native Infantry took up arms against...

19 Aug 2023 6:37 PM