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    Book Review | Quirky epic set in WW2 CalcuttaBooks and Art
    Book Review | Quirky epic set in WW2 Calcutta

    This was such an extraordinary achievement on the part of the writer that ultimately, when I got to the end of the book,...

    15 March 2025 6:33 AM

    Book Review | Life of Mahatma contemporary, pieced togetherBooks and Art
    Book Review | Life of Mahatma contemporary, pieced together

    The book is about Shah’s great-grandfather who, at one point in his life, travelled to South Africa and stayed there for...

    8 Feb 2025 10:39 AM

    Book Review | Who cares for the fate of a professional saboteur?Books and Art
    Book Review | Who cares for the fate of a professional saboteur?

    Usually, when I finish reading a book that has gripped me from start to end, I’m dying to talk about it. For the...

    11 Jan 2025 7:42 AM

    Book Review | A Gujarat riot survivor’s sharp-eyed memoirBooks and Art
    Book Review | A Gujarat riot survivor’s sharp-eyed memoir

    The Lucky Ones is heartbreaking and compassionate, told in the voice of a survivor rather than a victim

    23 Nov 2024 5:41 AM

    Book Review | Overwrought and under-imaginedBooks and Art
    Book Review | Overwrought and under-imagined

    He’s had sex but has never had intimacy and doesn’t expect he ever will

    2 Nov 2024 12:49 PM

    Book Review | Gut-wrenching novel on lives, Yazidi legacyBooks and Art
    Book Review | Gut-wrenching novel on lives, Yazidi legacy

    Last Sunday — decades after I finished college — I remembered a lecture that introduced a piece of literary jargon to my...

    14 Sept 2024 11:42 AM

    Book Review | Can Japan’s young write their own story?Books and Art
    Book Review | Can Japan’s young write their own story?

    Some five decades of dedicated reading have led me to put my faith in a certain axiom associated with books: No...

    24 Aug 2024 8:00 AM

    Book Review | Renewal or break? A Partition memoirBooks and Art
    Book Review | Renewal or break? A Partition memoir

    As a member of a Partition-affected family, I have always had a strong attraction to stories about that time in...

    20 July 2024 10:15 AM

    Book Review | How to secretly woo your bestie!Books and Art
    Book Review | How to secretly woo your bestie!

    For such a short book, Saikat Majumdar's The Remains of the Body packs a massive punch. It took me about 10 days to...

    29 Jun 2024 7:07 AM

    Book Review | Whimsical mindbenders that disturb and delightBooks and Art
    Book Review | Whimsical mindbenders that disturb and delight

    When I started reading Biopeculiar: Stories of an Uncertain World by Gigi Ganguly, I knew I couldn’t be objective...

    1 Jun 2024 7:25 AM

    Book Review | Fashionista-influencer discovers Goa’s susegadBooks and Art
    Book Review | Fashionista-influencer discovers Goa’s susegad

    For a book that turned out to be quite a mood lifter, Bina Nayak’s Goagr@m engendered a huge amount of angst in my...

    27 April 2024 7:48 AM

    Book Review | Tipu’s carpenter and his European questBooks and Art
    Book Review | Tipu’s carpenter and his European quest

    After I read the first four parts of Tania James's historical novel Loot, I just sat there, shivering with delight...

    13 April 2024 7:13 AM

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