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Book Review | Not your typical desi-goes-to-America novel

Hira isn’t in pursuit of the American dream, she just wants to get away from the small-mindedness of Pakistan....

17 Dec 2022 7:36 AM GMT

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Book Review | A treat for literary fiction lovers set in...

Set aside time to properly savour this deeply moving story, which, like its chief protagonist, is simple in its...

17 Dec 2022 7:26 AM GMT

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Book Review | Folk heroes take precedence over icons, wording of title...

The author says in his introduction that the genesis of this book lay in a meeting with a friend of his, a fellow-writer...

10 Dec 2022 8:03 PM GMT

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Book Review | Hefty and immersive, whydunit leaves questions in wake

My eyes goggled at the size of the book. At 576 pages, Lady Joker by Kaoru Takamura is a big book and it is just the...

10 Dec 2022 7:58 PM GMT

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Book Review | Bose revisited: Whose Netaji is he anyway?

Krishna Bose was an authority on Netaji’s life and times and is the author of several books on him

3 Dec 2022 1:50 PM GMT

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Book Review | How Anglo-Indians transformed India

The book covers much more than the things I’ve described, of course. It is as comprehensive as any book about any...

3 Dec 2022 1:44 PM GMT

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Book Review | Understanding the beef over cow politics

The author laments that the National Crime Records Bureau has nothing on lynching, cow slaughter crimes and crimes...

3 Dec 2022 1:41 PM GMT

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Book Review | People aren’t too different, in Mumbai or in U.S.

Border Less is a novel, or rather, a set of short stories that stand perfectly well on their own, but are actually...

26 Nov 2022 8:09 PM GMT

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Book Review | India@75: Talking heads take stock, list challenges

This book rings together an unusual collection of politicians, diplomats, journalists, artistes, economists and...

26 Nov 2022 7:52 PM GMT

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Book Review | Love tangles with family as Great Calcutta Killings

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s transition from mythology to history has been felicitous. If her previous novel, The...

26 Nov 2022 7:45 PM GMT

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Book Review | The soul of a river, poured into saga of fatherhood and...

Roy’s success lies in the fact that it is actually comforting to read her work not just for the clarity but also the...

19 Nov 2022 7:58 PM GMT

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Book Review | Quasi-autobiographical & sanitised trip back to 1980s’...

There’s a disquieting view of the country’s education system, as Yuri discovers in preparing for the tuitions that...

19 Nov 2022 7:51 PM GMT