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Book Review | A Bengali professor unscrambles the riddle of Berlin

Sojourn is a sketchy sort of travelogue — not just of a place but the mind. The narrator, a visiting professor at...

27 Aug 2022 6:36 PM

Cover image of Missed Translations (Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me) by Sopan Deb.

Book Review |Raw, dark, tender exploration of ties that bind families...

The book is raw, dark, and, surprisingly tender

19 Dec 2021 4:15 AM

Cover page of Srilaaji: The Gilded Life and Longings of a Marwari Goodwife.

BOOK REVIEW | Marwari housewifeâ€™s sexcapades end on a surprisingly...

This book started out with promise, if only because of the dysfunctional family Srilaa grew up in

21 Nov 2020 6:30 PM

Title: Sarojinis Mother, Author: Kunal Basu, Publisher: Penguin, No. of Pages: 231. Price: Rs. 599.

Tesu Calcutta spills its secrets in racy birth mystery

This starts as a fascinating story and turns farcical and loses its warmth, but never its funâ€”the characters are...

9 March 2020 12:10 PM

The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye, by David Lagercrantz Hachette India, Rs 599

Book Review: No blood and gore, fists don't fly either

Russia is dutifully mentioned, naturally: No one knows who in Russia is behind it.

22 Oct 2017 1:52 AM

A Life of Adventure and Delight, by Akhil Sharma, Penguin Random House, Rs 599

Book Review 'A Life of Adventure and Delight: Elegant prose, piercing...

The tagline, We are like this only, could well be used for Akhil Sharma's collection of eight stories in A Life of...

23 July 2017 1:12 AM

The Other Half of Happiness, by Ayisha Malik Bloomsbury, Rs 399

Book Review 'The Other Half of Happiness: Keeping faith and living...

It's a Muslim Bridget Jones sort of a dating diary, served with chunks of family life.

1 July 2017 10:57 PM