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Book Review | Vajpayee the Moderate, Who Yielded to Pressures

Book Review | Vajpayee the Moderate, Who Yielded to Pressures

It is surprising that both Vajpayee and Advani were reluctant to walk out of Janata Party even after the fall of the...

4 Oct 2025 12:56 PM IST

Book Review | An All-too-Familiar Loneliness?

Book Review | An All-too-Familiar Loneliness?

The delicacy of observation and lightness of prose on offer here makes for pleasant reading, but often resembles the...

4 Oct 2025 12:49 PM IST

Book Review | Road Trip Novel Dissects a Marriage

Book Review | Road Trip Novel Dissects a Marriage

Markovits’ writing brings out best of all the narrator’s character

27 Sept 2025 1:11 PM IST

Book Review | Too Much Solipsism Spoils the Memoir

Book Review | Too Much Solipsism Spoils the Memoir

It would have been nice if this memoir was only about her relationship with Rayya, who was an extremely colourful...

27 Sept 2025 1:07 PM IST

Book Review | Can Left Rise Again? A Saucy View

Book Review | Can Left Rise Again? A Saucy View

The book and its author do keep the flag flying for those who believe the world should be a far more just and equitable...

27 Sept 2025 12:56 PM IST

Book Review | Wit, Wounds and Gated Lives

Book Review | Wit, Wounds and Gated Lives

Over 250 pages, Joseph offers sharp vignettes of hypocrisy and quiet despair, expanding his theory of India

13 Sept 2025 1:12 PM IST

Book Review | Unhappy Marriage of Chick Lit, Social Satire

Book Review | Unhappy Marriage of Chick Lit, Social Satire

An amusing social satire with strong feminist characters, this novel is a breezy read

13 Sept 2025 1:05 PM IST

Book Review | Innovation Migrates from Silicon Valley

Book Review | Innovation Migrates from Silicon Valley

This mapping of technological innovations is an allegory for the complexities of cultures, competition and collaboration...

6 Sept 2025 1:25 PM IST

Book Review | In Love with Life, Cricket & Women

Book Review | In Love with Life, Cricket & Women

What sets Shikhar Dhawan’s ghosted autobiography apart is the honesty with which he has recounted his life as well as...

6 Sept 2025 1:17 PM IST

Book Review | True Story of Journalist Growing up in a Kotha

Book Review | True Story of Journalist Growing up in a Kotha

Manish or Monty (named after Rishi Kapoor in Karz) is born in a squalid kotha in north Calcutta’s Bandook Gully, amidst...

6 Sept 2025 12:58 PM IST

Book Review | In Thrall of the Image: Poetry in Influencer-ese

Book Review | In Thrall of the Image: Poetry in Influencer-ese

The inward-looking pieces direct the reader’s curiosity back to the short-lived fascinations of personality

30 Aug 2025 1:23 PM IST

Book Review | A Mother-Daughter Love Saga

Book Review | A Mother-Daughter Love Saga

A tribute to a difficult mother, this book is equally about the writer’s journey from a young girl to an accomplished...

30 Aug 2025 12:56 PM IST