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The cover page of American Fever.

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 1:06 PM IST

The cover page of The Secret of More.

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 12:56 PM IST

Cover photo of Bravehearts of Bharat by Vikram Sampath (Photo by arrangement)

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...

11 Dec 2022 1:33 AM IST

Cover photo of Lady Joker, Volume One by Kaoru Takamura (Photo by arrangement)

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...

11 Dec 2022 1:28 AM IST

The cover page of Netaji

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

Krishna Bose was an authority on Netajiâ€™s life and times and is the author of several books on him

3 Dec 2022 7:20 PM IST

The cover page of The Anglo-Indians

Book Review | How Anglo-Indians transformed India

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

3 Dec 2022 7:14 PM IST

The cover page of Who Will Bell the Cow? by Shruti Ganapatye

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 7:11 PM IST

Cover photo of Border Less by Namrata Poddar (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | People arenâ€™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...

27 Nov 2022 1:39 AM IST

Cover photo of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav: India@75 edited by Surendra Kumar (Photo by arrangement)

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

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

27 Nov 2022 1:22 AM IST

Cover photo of Independence by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Love tangles with family as Great Calcutta Killings rage

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

27 Nov 2022 1:15 AM IST

Cover photo of Black River by Nilanjana S. Roy (Photo by arrangement)

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

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

20 Nov 2022 1:28 AM IST

Cover photo of The Education of Yuri by Jerry Pinto (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Quasi-autobiographical & sanitised trip back to 1980sâ€™...

Thereâ€™s a disquieting view of the countryâ€™s education system, as Yuri discovers in preparing for the tuitions that...

20 Nov 2022 1:21 AM IST