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Book Review | What is key to hope after Gaza

Book Review | What is key to hope after Gaza

The only hope, the author believes, is the young, who in many parts of the world have protested the ongoing barbarity in...

15 Feb 2025 11:56 AM IST

Book Review | A primer in greed

Book Review | A primer in greed

One thread that runs through the book is the mechanics of investment banking, which the author explains fairly simply

15 Feb 2025 11:52 AM IST

Book Review | Is everyone at least a little bit mad?

Book Review | Is everyone at least a little bit mad?

Since mental health is at the heart of this novel, it is expectedly sad, but beautiful too, with imagery so vivid it...

15 Feb 2025 11:38 AM IST

The 1971 Rs 60L SBI heist: Did the bank keep Indira’s unaccounted for money?

The 1971 Rs 60L SBI heist: Did the bank keep Indira’s unaccounted for...

Prakash Patra, Rasheed Kidwai’s ‘The Nagarwala scandal – The scam shook that shook the nation’ documents lackadaisical...

20 Aug 2024 6:44 PM IST

Readers Go from Shelf to Scrolls

Hyderabad Chronicle

Readers Go from Shelf to Scrolls

BookTok and Bookstagram have taken the world of literature by storm, with millions of readers sharing their views, these...

8 Aug 2024 12:00 AM IST

Book Review | In defence of living things, big and small

Book Review | In defence of living things, big and small

As far as literary style goes, this Hindi-language novella follows the tradition of Indian language realist fiction of...

30 July 2023 12:10 AM IST

Cover photo of Manjhis Mayhem by Tanuj Solanki. (Photo by arrangement)

Book Review | Fast-paced noir thriller hard not to enjoy

Manjhi’s Mayhem is a noir thriller with the main character Sewaram Manjhi working as a security guard in a posh...

29 Jan 2023 12:49 AM IST

Wily H.N. Bahugunaâ€™s closeness to Soviets proved his undoing

Wily H.N. Bahugunaâ€™s closeness to Soviets proved his undoing

Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna was a central character in Uttar Pradesh’s turbulent politics of the 1960-70s. He also had...

7 Aug 2022 12:03 AM IST