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While buyers visit each of these stalls, many cultural activities, such as slam poetry, dances, vocal performances, and book launches, take place on a stage set in the centre of the fair. (Photo: DC)

In the age of audiobooks, Hyderabad Book Fair a crowd puller

29 Dec 2022 12:12 AM
Ulaga Oli and Sudha

Library of dreams

A young man’s life was tragically cut short, but his parents are helping hundreds of young people get ahead
04 Jul 2022 12:31 PM
John Lang: Wanderer of Hindoostan, Slanderer in Hindoostanee, Lawyer for the Ranee By Amit Ranjan. (Amazon Photo)

Book Review | Discovering the Oz author who was lawyer for Rani of Jhansi

In his short life of 48 years, John Lang produced 23 novels, one travelogue, some plays and five volumes of poetry
20 Nov 2021 7:48 PM
Contested Lands: India, China and the Boundary Dispute By Maroof Raza. (Amazon photo)

Book Review | Crouching Elephant, Hidden Dragon: This history is not to be repeated

The resulting shortcomings in dealing with the Chinese have cost India dearly in terms of its security and progress
20 Nov 2021 7:40 PM
Karunanidhi: A Life By A.S. Panneerselvan. (Amazon Photo)

Book Review | Truths about M. Karunanidhi & perspectives on Tamil politics

One of the key takeaways in the book is the articulation of Karunanidhi’s position vis-a-vis the Sri Lankan Tamil issue
20 Nov 2021 7:09 PM
On the Open Road

‘A week’s plan works for me’

An inspirational story of three people who refuse to give up on themselves
21 Oct 2021 10:48 AM
The book stall owners say that gradually students are shifting to online content and watch videos related to the content of textbooks and other books. (AFP Photo)

Books remain on shelves as education turns online

E-learning is fast becoming the mode of education and printed books are slowly being distanced from students and teachers
07 Jul 2021 2:50 PM
Book cover of All Roads Lead North by Amish Raj Mulmi. (Photo: Goodreads)

Book review | All Roads Lead North

A handshake across Himalayas, amid Terai rumblings
21 Jun 2021 11:48 AM
Salman’s essay is not unsympathetic to the hijras and charts the structure of their social existence and pleads for some attention to the risks they face through HIV and AIDS. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | Fantasy beats autofiction, but ‘magic realism’ trounced by fact

Salman contends that publishing today favours the revealing, racially, sexually and culturally situated autobiography
20 Jun 2021 1:50 AM
In his short, intense, sad but artistically fruitful life Guru Dutt managed to communicate with a large audience who paid to see his films and sustained his production company; an absolute necessity in commercial Hindi cinema. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | The eloquent outsider, lovingly remembered...

Guru Dutt had the rare ability of being loved and commanding the loyalty of those who came in contact with him
20 Jun 2021 1:40 AM
A scripture-quoting narrator with tongue firmly in cheek relates the story of a devious zamindar and moneylender in a village in Odisha. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | An Odia literary star’s fine vignettes, wicked wit and social insights

While the book deals with dark subjects, the hand that writes it is beautifully light, and gives you many occasions to laugh out loud
20 Jun 2021 1:10 AM
The book comes with a list of questions for reading club discussions. (Photo: Amazon)

Book Review | Bookseller’s love story in wartime Paris shows past is never behind us

Fast paced, the book, though a work of fiction, has been well researched and with historical sources cited
06 Jun 2021 9:26 AM
This is clearly a book that needs to be read over an extended period of time. (Photo: Goodreads)

Book Review | Hobsbawm’s choice: When logic rejects nationalism...

Britain’s best-known historian, Eric Hobsbawm, traverses a similar path in his writings on Nationalism
06 Jun 2021 9:18 AM
The title of Ritwik’s novel is a metaphor for our times. (Photo: Goodreads)

Book Review | An insider’s view on elite publishing in Indian Right’s shadow

The book gives us an opportunity to have an insider’s view of the Indian publishing world
06 Jun 2021 9:11 AM
Off the Beaten Track

BOOK EXCERPT | Saeeda Bano, 1st female Indian radio jockey, meets Akhtari Bai

Here is an excerpt from Saeeda Bano's biography
03 Nov 2020 1:13 AM
Fleming wrote 'Casino Royale', his first novel about the fictional super spy. (Photo: AFP)

Book that serves as an outlet for libido and imagination

Licensed to thrill: Bond author's steamy letters go on sale.
13 Nov 2019 9:45 AM
Books and biographies of legendary king Vikramaditya, who started the ‘Vikram Samvat’, the traditional Hindu calendar, Shivaji and emperor Ashoka will be occupying prominent space in the library.

Books on Hindu kings to be put up in BJP headquarters

Historians glorified Mughals instead of orginal Hindu rules: Tiwari.
21 Jul 2019 2:22 AM
In "Adventures of the GST Man", author Srinivas Kotni uses a fictional superhero to answer questions that one may have on GST.

Comic book 'Adventures of the GST Man' to demystify GST rules

Srinivas Kotni says he wanted to simplify understanding of GST and make it exciting by using caricatures and cartoons.
27 Jun 2019 3:31 PM
The doll factory

Art thriller studies the obsession to possess a soul

You can take the novel as it is or make it far richer for yourself with a few trips to Google.
23 Jun 2019 3:38 AM
The fate of butterflies

Fear, humour mix in sadly prescient saga of our times

The world here has changed, those who have been portrayed as the “Other” have been detained.
23 Jun 2019 3:35 AM

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