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Book Review | Whimsical mindbenders that disturb and delight

Book Review | Whimsical mindbenders that disturb and delight

When I started reading Biopeculiar: Stories of an Uncertain World by Gigi Ganguly, I knew I couldn’t be objective...

1 Jun 2024 12:55 PM IST

Book Review | How India, Nepal let each other down

Book Review | How India, Nepal let each other down

Among all its neighbours in South Asia, India perhaps enjoys the most unique relationship with Nepal. But it is...

1 Jun 2024 12:35 PM IST

Book Review | The heart of a dark matter

Book Review | The heart of a dark matter

The author handles his thriller for young adults with practised ease, creating somewhat believable characters and an...

25 May 2024 12:17 PM IST

Book Review | An Indian with an Arab’s inner reserves

Book Review | An Indian with an Arab’s inner reserves

Ebrahim Alkazi’s father Hamed Alkazi was an immigrant businessman in India. He came from Nejd in Saudi Arabia as a ...

25 May 2024 12:10 PM IST

Has the IAS failed the nation? D. Subbarao shares his views

Has the IAS failed the nation? D. Subbarao shares his views

Can anyone compress a whole lifetime, especially a busy and eventful one, into a single book? Not really. But former...

18 May 2024 2:12 PM IST

Book Review | Brilliance, empathy, simplicity qualities that define Subbarao

Book Review | Brilliance, empathy, simplicity qualities that define...

Subbarao, Subba as we call him, is my IAS batchmate. I still recall vividly the first time I met him on that mid-July...

18 May 2024 2:06 PM IST

Book Review | If cooks could kill: The enigma of the ugly femme fatale

Book Review | If cooks could kill: The enigma of the ugly femme fatale

Gourmet cook and romancer of lonely old men, Manako Kajii, is convicted and locked in Tokyo Detention House on...

18 May 2024 11:01 AM IST

A Mind-Boggling Murder Mystery

Hyderabad Chronicle

A Mind-Boggling Murder Mystery

A murder mystery that will keep you guessing about the surprise twists, deceitful moves, and ulterior motives of its...

8 May 2024 12:55 AM IST

Ambitions of an enigmatic king

Ambitions of an enigmatic king

Babur: The Chessboard King provides compelling insight into author's journey of researching and writing about Babur and...

3 May 2024 6:58 PM IST

Book Review | India, essentially liberal? If not, should we celebrate the death of its promise?

Book Review | India, essentially liberal? If not, should we celebrate...

Has the Liberal project of the 1990s suffered an irreversible decline? And should one lament its passing? The author...

27 April 2024 1:32 PM IST

Book Review | Jingoistic war fantasy presented as speculative fiction

Book Review | Jingoistic war fantasy presented as speculative fiction

In the dystopian narrative of The Man Who Lost India, journalist Meghna Pant paints a grim picture of a future...

20 April 2024 12:41 PM IST

Book Review | Tipu’s carpenter and his European quest

Book Review | Tipu’s carpenter and his European quest

After I read the first four parts of Tania James's historical novel Loot, I just sat there, shivering with delight...

13 April 2024 12:43 PM IST