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Beyond Gunboat Diplomacy
May 7, 2016 01:24 IST
The subtle art of geoeconomics and the limitations of military force form the core of this analysis of America’s foreign policy
Book review: Mahatma Gandhi’s killing was an act of Love Jihad
May 6, 2016 13:18 IST
Describing Gandhi as arguably the greatest Hindu of modern times, the author is more interested in the fuller ramifications of his death than the mere details and circumstances of the January 30, 1948 murder.
Book review: The female body and a scientific case for curves
May 2, 2016 16:13 IST
A new book explores the provocative issue of the "origins and power of female body shape", in particular, the body's "biology, the mind it contains, the culture that surrounds it.
Missing Phantom and Mandrake?
May 1, 2016 14:53 IST
Your favourite Mandrake and Phantom are back in original form...on the Kindle app.
On the Record: Master of Words
April 30, 2016 01:40 IST
Author of bestselling novels such as The Rozabal Line, Chanakya’s Chant and The Krishna Key, Ashwin Sanghi is known for delving into history and mythology.
Crossing Over
April 30, 2016 00:54 IST
When Breath Becomes Air is a lyrical account of a philosophical mind that strove to find meaning in literature, medicine, religion and mortality.
Gandhi, Unseen
November 21, 2017 17:28 IST
Yet, after reading Pramod Kapoor’s voluminous tome on Gandhi, I cannot but conclude that this book adds significant value to the biographical corpus of the Mahatma.
Travels Through Light and Darkness
April 30, 2016 00:52 IST
Travel doesn’t widen our horizons. it merely confirms them. We were there, and we have the pictures to prove it.
A War For the Empire, a Battle Against the Raj
November 24, 2017 13:46 IST
Srinath Raghavan’s landmark history argues that the Second World War, which saw Indian soldiers fight many battles for the British, destroyed the myth of the invincibility of the empire.
Book Review: ‘The Unseen Indira Gandhi’ is full of anecdotes
April 28, 2016 12:16 IST
Indira Gandhi's personal physician recollects her cool composure under pressure and her evolution into a leader.
Game of Thrones
April 28, 2016 00:00 IST
A book on the iconic princely landmarks of central Delhi holds a cornucopia of India’s history.
Juggernaut — a digital publishing house that challenges the way people will read stories
April 27, 2016 10:43 IST
Juggernaut, the digital publishing house, founded by Chiki Sarkar and Durga Raghunath, believes it is the disruptor come to deliver
How to insult like the Bard
April 24, 2016 00:00 IST
Shakespeare enriched the English language with hundreds of new words. But, upon my word, you can also find some of the best put-downs in his writing.
Brave New Words
April 24, 2016 00:00 IST
As writers connect with the internet and do away with the traditional formalisms of literature, what new tales are in store for us?
Shelf Life: Gone Girl
April 23, 2016 00:06 IST
An unputdownable thriller about a fractious family and a child who disappears.
Mother and Other Tongues
April 23, 2016 00:05 IST
This book about books, ramifying over a nearly two-century history of writing in India, primarily in the English language, is a rich and colourful patchwork
The Great Game in the East
April 23, 2016 18:59 IST
How geopolitics and geography shaped the idea of the Northeast.
Trick or Tryst?
April 23, 2016 00:00 IST
Writer and columnist Tavleen Singh on her new book, Modi and the media, and the family she holds responsible for the country’s many ills.
Deewana mujhsa nahin: The colourful life of Shammi Kapoor captured in a book
April 20, 2016 11:29 IST
Filled with exuberant highs and depressing lows, both influencing and portraying a paradigmatic shift in the Indian film hero, his was a life that demanded to be told- and veteran film journalist Rauf Ahmed does it justice.
‘Everything is a broken tryst’
April 20, 2016 00:01 IST
Columnist and writer Tavleen Singh’s new book traverses Lutyens’ Delhi drawing rooms, PM Modi’s parivartan politics and footpaths of urban India.
The easy way to do more in lesser time with lower stress
April 19, 2016 12:11 IST
The crux is breaking down the task into a number of small steps setting out what exactly has to be done and in which order.
PaperBackers: A Love Like Theirs
April 16, 2016 00:47 IST
When two lovers are compared to Romeo and Juliet, one expects a story with death foretold. Not with Rod Nordland’s Zakia and Ali in The Lovers.
PaperBackers: Intelligent Murder
April 16, 2016 00:39 IST
A clearly disturbed individual learns how to remotely access various “smart” household devices and employs them as a means to murder by causing horrific domestic accidents.
Playing the Game
April 16, 2016 00:34 IST
A well-researched but prosaic book on the circus that is the Indian Premier League.
Excerpt: The Inheritance of Loss
April 16, 2016 00:20 IST
The last word from one of India’s finest writers, who famously refused to live in Narendra Modi’s India.
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