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Book Review | A sex workers son navigates his dilemmas in this compelling debut

Book Review | A sex worker's son navigates his dilemmas in this...

The title reminds you of Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native, and Faraz Ali is indeed a native who briefly...

14 May 2023 12:18 AM IST

Book Review | Kolkata ex-cop in Brick Lane finds redemption

Book Review | Kolkata ex-cop in Brick Lane finds redemption

Kamil Rahman is a disgraced former detective from Kolkata’s police headquarters, Lalbazar. With his career in...

14 May 2023 12:15 AM IST

Book Review | An insightful biography of a Hindi thought pioneer

Book Review | An insightful biography of a Hindi thought pioneer

Vineet Gill’s Here and Hereafter: Nirmal Verma’s Life in Literature (Penguin Random House India 2022) is an...

7 May 2023 1:06 AM IST

Book Review | 1980s: The decade of kitsch and melodrama in Bollywood cinema

Book Review | 1980s: The decade of kitsch and melodrama in Bollywood...

The period from the late 1940s, after India’s independence, to the 1970s is regarded by film historians as...

7 May 2023 1:01 AM IST

Book Review | Too many frivolous details spoil a cleverly conceptualised spy thriller

Book Review | Too many frivolous details spoil a cleverly...

Tarun Mehrishi’s debut novel The Portrait of a Secret is a page-turning spy thriller that spans a wide arc of...

7 May 2023 12:58 AM IST

Book Review | Entrepreneur couple promotes physical literacy in picture book

Book Review | Entrepreneur couple promotes physical literacy in...

In the era of television, computers and mobile tablets, are children missing out on the benefits and learning that...

6 May 2023 12:47 AM IST

Book Review | Rising beyond personal losses

Book Review | Rising beyond personal losses

The three-part book invites you to discover each of the three entwined phenomena of grief, growth and grace.

6 May 2023 12:34 AM IST

Heres a jaw-dropping psychological thriller

Here's a jaw-dropping psychological thriller

A riveting novel chronicling the journey of an unborn child with extraordinary powers and a pregnant woman trying to...

2 May 2023 11:56 PM IST

Book Review | A groundbreaking history of Indian public policy & entrepreneurship

Book Review | A groundbreaking history of Indian public policy &...

Amitabh Kant, our G-20 Sherpa, has had an illustrious career as an excellent civil servant, constantly arguing for...

30 April 2023 12:58 AM IST

Book Review | The cut-throat world of momfluencers

Book Review | The cut-throat world of momfluencers

The cover of Nidhi Raichand’s Moms in the Wild is quite attractive. It’s the kind of cover that whispers...

30 April 2023 12:53 AM IST

Book Review | Pashtuns: One race, two nations; a bloody present but proud past

Book Review | Pashtuns: One race, two nations; a bloody present but...

Pashtuns have been the subject of enquiry for many centuries now, chiefly on account of their warlike nature, refusal to...

30 April 2023 12:35 AM IST

Cover photo of Azaad: An Autobiography by Ghulam Nabi Azad. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | None too comfortable revelations from a Congress Party...

Former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad’s autobiography cannot fail to delight political hacks because it has some...

23 April 2023 12:52 AM IST