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    Cover page of The Light of AsiaLifestyle
    Book review | Strange life of a poem that revealed Buddha to world

    Jairam Ramesh's Light of Asia, there can be no doubt, is an altogether satisfying and successful experiment

    10 Oct 2021 10:21 AM IST

    There are three qualities that Chauhan novels are famous for: a toe-curling romance, mostly between polar opposites; a larger story where said polar-opposites are required to rise up to a challenge. DC ImageLifestyle
    Book Review | B'bye chick lit, welcome cross-cultural crime fiction

    Fate conspires to throw Bambi and Kashi together again rekindling old sparks when the club's handsome Zumba instructor...

    25 April 2021 9:42 AM IST

    Cover page of Beautiful Place by Amanthi HarrisLifestyle
    Book REVIEW | Privilege-bound but absorbing study of rural Sri Lanka

    A deeply absorbing novel of the old school, Beautiful Place is strongest when it portrays the worlds that the author is...

    7 Feb 2021 11:55 AM IST

    Bombay Balchao, by Jane Borges Tranquebar, Rs 499Lifestyle
    A novel-in-stories charts the secret life of a neighbourhood

    At the mouth of the lane, hanging perilously from a wrought iron pole is a plaque the colour of midnight blue.

    12 Jan 2020 1:30 AM IST

    Prelude to a Riot By Annie Zaidi Aleph, Rs 499Lifestyle
    Book Review: Slim, fearless novel takes on the anomie of our times

    Each character gets a “soliloquy” in their voice, only one.

    22 Dec 2019 2:42 AM IST

    Girl in White Cotton by Avni Doshi Fourth Estate India, Rs 599Lifestyle
    At last, it’s time to unpack the difficult mother

    In the past, Tara had walked out of her marriage (to an unexciting man with an overbearing mother) and joined a cult,...

    1 Dec 2019 1:17 AM IST

    A magical portrait of colonial Calcutta & an unlikely lovestoryLifestyle
    A magical portrait of colonial Calcutta & an unlikely lovestory

    The old patrons — the British — may look askance at the interlopers who are apparently “upsetting the delicate...

    20 Oct 2019 2:07 AM IST

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