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Cover Photo of Rethink Ageing: Lessons in Ageing from the Older and Bolder Generation by Reshmi Chakraborty and Nidhi Chawla (Photo: By arrangement)

Book Review | Whoâ€™s afraid of growing old?

The book, strangely, given my pessimism about ageing, made me smile

19 Nov 2022 7:32 PM

Cover photo of The War Diary of Asha-San by Lt Bharati Asha Sahay Choudhry (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Diary of 17-yr-old girl of Netajiâ€™s INA evokes...

Patriotism is a dirty word in India nowadays. Patriots are considered at par with jingoists, fanatics, right-wingers,...

12 Nov 2022 8:24 PM

Cover photo of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Narrating the Lankan experience in guise of a...

It is 1989. A brutal civil war is tearing Sri Lanka apart. Maali Almeida, the narrator of Shehan Karunatilaka’s...

12 Nov 2022 7:35 PM

Cover photo of Between You, Me and the Four Walls by Moni Mohsin (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | A frothy retelling of the journey of Pak & the world in...

Yet another book on Moni Mohsin’s charming Social Butterfly, hurrah! For those who came in late, this political...

5 Nov 2022 7:55 PM

Cover photo of Memsahibs: British Women in Colonial India by Ipshita Nath (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | The Memsahib among Indians, her â€˜burdenâ€™ and her...

The book offers another perspective on the British Raj in India, seen through the lens of the women who took up the...

5 Nov 2022 7:51 PM

Cover photo of Ambedkar: A Life by Shashi Tharoor (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Was Ambedkar Gandhiâ€™s best critic or worst?

We have in this book an ideal introduction to Bhim Rao Ambedkar’s life and politics. It is a lucid and brief...

5 Nov 2022 7:47 PM

Cover photo of The Bellboy by Anees Salim (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | When innocence meets adversity and cliques clash with...

In the first 100-or-so-odd pages of William Faulkner's landmark novel The Sound and the Fury, we look at the world...

29 Oct 2022 8:23 PM

Cover photo of Crooked Cats: Beastly Encounters in the Anthropocene by Nayanika Mathur

Book Review | Climate change and evolution of the â€˜crookedâ€™ cat

In this age of the anthropocene — where human action has basically triggered and hastened the progress of the...

29 Oct 2022 7:41 PM

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Man of steel: Nrupender Rao

Book chronicles Nrupender Rao-'s journey and how he overcame obstacles to establish one of the most formidable companies...

28 Oct 2022 9:38 AM

Cover photo of Dangerous Pursuits by Suniti Namjoshi (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Fables study climate, capital and the flawed beauty of...

Dangerous Pursuits demonstrates the writerâ€™s depth of thought and breadth of skill. We float effortlessly from satire...

22 Oct 2022 8:00 PM

Cover photo of The Birth Lottery and Other Surprises by Shehan Karunatilaka (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Discoveries from the desk of a Booker winner

These stories remind us of the author of the DSC Prize winning Chinaman and the Booker Prize winning The Seven Moons of...

22 Oct 2022 7:47 PM

The cover page of The Book Book

Book Review | Writer turns diarist, maps his own matrix of thoughts

Itâ€™s a small book, sprinkled lightly with insight, with moments of intimacy and of honesty

12 Jun 2022 8:59 AM