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AN ESCAPIST LOVE STORY

AN ESCAPIST LOVE STORY

A bookish suffragist falls in love with an achingly handsome young Oxford scholar, who is out to steal some ancient...

26 Dec 2023 6:14 PM GMT

Coverpage of Roman Stories.

Book Review | Roman lives curiously radiate that sinking feeling

If you’re a fan of short stories, then you perhaps were blooded on Guy de Maupassant and O. Henry. The deceptive...

16 Dec 2023 8:46 PM GMT

Coverpage of Mansur.

Book Review | Heady Mughal thriller combines intrigue and art

The opening pages of Mansur call to mind Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red, but the similarity disappears very soon....

16 Dec 2023 8:28 PM GMT

Coverpage of Breaking the Mould: Reimagining Indias Economic Future.

Book Excerpt | India's growth story diverges from the pan-Asian...

Asian export-led growth accelerated the typical shift in labour between sectors, but the transformation was similar to...

16 Dec 2023 8:13 PM GMT

Coverpage of Tales of Early Magic Realism in Bengali.

Book Review | Spectres and spirits of Bengal past

Sucheta Dasgupta has carefully selected and translated six of Mukhopadhyay's stories in the folk/fairy tale and fantasy...

16 Dec 2023 8:04 PM GMT

Cover photo of Adman Madman: Unapologetically Prahlad by Prahlad Kakar, with Rupangi Sharma. (Image by Arrangement)

Book Review | How to prank and laugh your way to success

On any film shoot, there’s a great deal of waiting around. Waiting for the lights to be set up, waiting for the...

2 Dec 2023 5:15 PM GMT

Cover photo of Three Countries, Three Lives: A Doctors Story by Lindy Rajan Cartner. (Image by Arrangement)

Book Review | Tamil Christian girl from Rangoon becomes a doctor

Three countries, three generations, three cultures… The story of Dr Lindy Rajan Cartner travels across India,...

2 Dec 2023 5:05 PM GMT

Cover photo of The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella. (Image by Arrangement)

Book Review | A barely-there romance, but a rip-roaring stressbuster!

The fact that I’m in fairly good humour as I write this review is entirely due to the book I’m reviewing...

2 Dec 2023 5:01 PM GMT

Cover photo of Another Sort of Freedom: A Memoir by Gurcharan Das. (Image by Arrangement)

Book Review | A memoir, journal or laundry list? Or man gargling in...

Gurcharan Das started out life as Ashok Kumar. His parents belonged to the Radha Soami sect. A “saint” at...

18 Nov 2023 5:53 PM GMT

Cover photo Sisters under the Rising Sun by Heather Morris. (Image by Arrangement)

Book Review | Women in WW2 prison camp stick by one another

If I were to describe ‘Sisters under the Rising Sun,’ by Heather Morris, I would use the words: sisterhood,...

18 Nov 2023 5:50 PM GMT

Cover photo of Western Lane by Chetna Maroo. (Image by Arrangement)

Book Review | Brilliant debut on precocious girl consumed by squash

A Gujarati housewife, Charu, dies in the course of a warm London summer. She leaves behind her husband, Pa, an...

18 Nov 2023 5:48 PM GMT

A Jamaican survivor chronicles Americana

A Jamaican survivor chronicles Americana

People who burn themselves up in pursuit of survival rarely survive anyone or anything

21 Oct 2023 6:30 PM GMT