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Book review: Young and Restless
May 28, 2016 02:33 IST
Teenage despots divide and rule over an entire realm of nerds, geeks, cheerleaders and the uncool.
Book review: The Middle Kingdom
May 28, 2016 02:33 IST
Krishan Kalra was a regular on the edit pages of several publications, including the Indian Express, and this collection of middles recalls his best years.
Book review: The Outsider Inside
May 28, 2016 02:17 IST
The biography of a Brahmin homosexual, written in the 1930s, is a testament to Nirala’s radical talent.
Book review: It’s the Fault in Our Land
May 28, 2016 02:06 IST
Perumal Murugan’s novel about love amid caste hate provides a terrifying vision of intolerance.
Book review: Guts, Guns and Some Glory
May 28, 2016 01:51 IST
A military history about the Indian armed forces sets a benchmark for thoroughness and excellence.
Get a peek into Kerala’s tourist highlights through this coffee-table book series
May 23, 2016 16:17 IST
Eco-tourism has been one of the highlights of Kerala that successive governments have pushed for
Once Upon a Road
May 22, 2016 00:00 IST
Long lost pages from Satyajit Ray’s sketchbook for his iconic film, Pather Panchali, highlight the auteur’s rare, elaborate process.
Paper Backers: Ways of the Raj
May 21, 2016 17:21 IST
Both the books take the reader back in time, to the rulers of the past.
Where The Wind Blows
May 21, 2016 00:25 IST
An IAS officer’s memoir of his career and the people he encountered on the way.
Beyond Its Boundaries
May 21, 2016 00:23 IST
In his new book, Christophe Jaffrelot explores the continuously evolving and multifaceted nexus between Pakistan’s political economy and global politics.
The Down to Earth Stargazer
May 21, 2016 00:15 IST
Ruchir Sharma presents a polemic about the contemporary problems of the world economy with a good deal of unfamiliar detail.
South Korean writer Han Kang’s ‘The Vegetarian’ wins Man Booker fiction prize
May 17, 2016 15:25 IST
Han Kang beat literary stars, including elusive Italian author Elena Ferrante and Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk for the £50,000 Man Booker fiction prize.
Strokes of Rebellion
March 24, 2021 13:21 IST
A book and an exhibition recall the art of Brij Mohan Anand.
The circle of life
May 15, 2016 01:30 IST
Venkat Raman Singh Shyam’s new book tells the story of his life and art.
Book review: That Old Feeling
May 14, 2016 00:24 IST
Just like Indian filmmakers of yesteryears preferred to portray young love which was naïvely disconnected from complications, Puri has concentrated on a well-treaded surface of superficial emotion.
Book review: Insider Writing
May 14, 2016 00:16 IST
Drawing on his stint as chief economic advisor in the finance ministry, Kaushik Basu provides an insider’s account of the workings of North Block
Book review: Good Fences Make Good Neighbours
August 1, 2016 13:51 IST
In his new book, former Pakistani diplomat Husain Haqqani urges India and Pakistan to engage with each other as countries rather than as communities still caught up in communal politics
The Other Satyagraha
May 14, 2016 14:58 IST
In the context of Ambedkarite politics and ideas, Anand Teltumbde shows how the Mahad conferences in 1927 wrested control of the movement from caste Hindus in favour of Dalits.
180 photos, 6 languages: Book on Golden Temple released
May 12, 2016 09:02 IST
The idea behind the book is to project that “Golden Temple is a temple of humanity and for not Sikhs alone”.
Tagore and his women: Works that conveyed feminism very strongly
May 7, 2017 12:58 IST
Being a progressive thinker, his writings often were based on bold subjects that were far ahead of the time.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
May 8, 2016 01:30 IST
Jenny Diski was a documentarian of an important place at an important time.
The Importance of Line Breaks
May 7, 2016 01:51 IST
Erotext and the detailed Fractals demonstrate the skill and breadth of Sudeep Sen’s craft.
Shelf Life: Star Trek
May 7, 2016 01:35 IST
J Randy Taraborrelli’s latest biography, Becoming Beyonce, comes after his telling accounts of Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and Cher among others.
Those Fancy Wheels
May 7, 2016 01:26 IST
A coffee-table book that delves into the history of the pioneering automobile marque, Mercedes-Benz.
Shelf Life: Mind Game
May 7, 2016 01:28 IST
In The Last Mile, the policeman-turned-private-investigator is called in to consult with the FBI for a project involving the reopening of cold and/or anomalous cases.
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