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    Book Review | A Flashlit Mosaic of Mystery & MemoryBooks and Art
    Book Review | A Flashlit Mosaic of Mystery & Memory

    All I can say is the book is part domestic drama, part historical fiction, and wholly compelling in its exploration of...

    13 Dec 2025 12:33 PM IST

    Book Review | Slow-moving Thriller Shambles Into PragueBooks and Art
    Book Review | Slow-moving Thriller Shambles Into Prague

    Start. Stop. Start. Stop. Start. Stop. Reading Dan Brown’s latest novel, The Secret of Secrets, was like driving in...

    15 Nov 2025 8:33 PM IST

    Book Review | So What if Britain were to be India’s 30th State?Books and Art
    Book Review | So What if Britain were to be India’s 30th State?

    For two weeks since I finished the book, these questions have ruled my mind. I still don’t have answers. So I can’t...

    18 Oct 2025 1:16 PM IST

    Book Review | Thinking Through the World by Night TrainBooks and Art
    Book Review | Thinking Through the World by Night Train

    Monisha Rajesh, a British journalist who, in 2023, was named in Conde Nast Traveller’s ‘Women Who Travel Power List’,...

    4 Oct 2025 1:04 PM IST

    Book Review | Sufi Symbols, Afghanistan Jazz up Murder MysteryBooks and Art
    Book Review | Sufi Symbols, Afghanistan Jazz up Murder Mystery

    If the storytelling had been more incisive, The Sufi Storyteller could have been a book I’d love

    26 July 2025 1:51 PM IST

    Book Review | Gritty Delhi, Glitzy Delhi And All Delhis In-BetweenBooks and Art
    Book Review | Gritty Delhi, Glitzy Delhi And All Delhis In-Between

    The other thing about this anthology that really makes a difference is that many of the pieces have been translated from...

    17 May 2025 12:42 PM IST

    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 12:03 PM IST

    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 4:09 PM IST

    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 1:12 PM IST

    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 11:11 AM IST

    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 6:19 PM IST

    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 5:12 PM IST

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