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    Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu, translated by Jenny Bhatt.Lifestyle
    Book Review | Worlds within worlds in Dhumketu's best classic short...

    In this collection of stories, you go back in time to the age of Bimbisaar, move to Darjeeling just before and after a...

    14 March 2021 2:15 AM IST

    Cover page of The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby RLifestyle
    Book REVIEW | The importance of being earnest in a villainish and...

    The Impeccable Integrity of Ruby R. is not a political novel. It’s a novel set in politics, but it’s about Ruby and...

    20 Dec 2020 8:18 AM IST

    Cover page of Pilgrim Nation: The Making of Bharatvarsh.Lifestyle
    BOOK REVIEW | Preachy tone mars this quirky history of local...

    If you are familiar with Pattanaik’s earlier books, you will also note that this book is not quite in his usual style

    22 Nov 2020 12:00 AM IST

    Sapiosexual love is where Buddha and Yashodhara were atLifestyle
    Sapiosexual love is where Buddha and Yashodhara were at

    A few weeks after I finished this book, I came across a social media post announcing an anti-feminist yajna in...

    8 Oct 2019 12:39 AM IST

    Eclectic mix has energy of maestro’s superhit songsLifestyle
    Eclectic mix has energy of maestro’s superhit songs

    Part of the joy of reading Looking for Miss Sargam is the possibility that Mudgal based the stories on real life people...

    25 Aug 2019 1:24 AM IST

    Studies of hypochondria, polyamory fail to carry flimsy storyLifestyle
    Studies of hypochondria, polyamory fail to carry flimsy story

    Real life has no logic, I know. But good fiction does, and I found very little logic in the telling of this story.

    18 Aug 2019 1:29 AM IST

    Book Review: Bittersweet, if solipsistic, musings on mortalityLifestyle
    Book Review: Bittersweet, if solipsistic, musings on mortality

    Iyer explains what he-'s doing with his newest manuscript in his usual roundabout style.

    28 July 2019 7:50 AM IST

    Laughter, emails and adventures of young girlfriendsLifestyle
    Laughter, emails and adventures of young girlfriends

    If at all you’re floundering in sadness, read To Night Owl From Dogfish. I guarantee it’ll get you laughing again.

    19 July 2019 6:13 AM IST

    When you need to accept death, read this to save your lifeLifestyle
    When you need to accept death, read this to save your life

    This book is about her own path to accepting the concept of medically-eased death.

    16 Jun 2019 3:45 AM IST

    The English Maharani: Queen Victoria and India by Miles Taylor; Penguin Viking, Rs 799.Lifestyle
    Queen Victoria the person, not just the Crown

    In 2018, reading a book about her influence on my country is simply a novelty.

    25 Nov 2018 7:23 AM IST

    The Return of the Railway Children by Lou Kuenzler Scholastic, Rs 755Lifestyle
    Book Review: A nostalgic touch to children's adventures

    The tension is high in these chapters, but the smaller adventures are light and funny, and altogether thoroughly enjoyed...

    23 Sept 2018 5:04 AM IST

    Chaitanya Mahaprabhu: The Story of Bengals Greatest Bhakti Saint, by Chitrita Banerji Juggernaut, Rs 499Lifestyle
    Book Review: A lovely story, but feels unreal

    But when his father died, young Nimai realised that he was the only person standing between his family and penury.

    9 Sept 2018 6:09 AM IST

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