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Book Review: In the Court of the Ranee of Jhansi And Other Travels in India
October 4, 2015 00:00 IST
An Australian gentleman’s travels and accounts of life in northern India during the Rising of 1857 make for lively social history
Book Review – McCluskieganj: The Story of the Only Anglo-Indian Village in India
October 3, 2015 00:00 IST
Rather than an overarching novelistic narrative, the book has an episodic structure like a collection of short stories.
‘Tiger Boy’ book review: The Long Way Back
October 3, 2015 00:00 IST
A touching story about a lost tiger cub and a boy’s determination to restore it to its mother.
‘Purity’ book review: White, Male, Educated Middle Class
October 3, 2015 00:00 IST
Jonathan Franzen’s new novel is blindsided by his characteristic conservatism and tendency to take himself too seriously.
Book Review: The Oxford Handbook of Indian Foreign Policy
October 3, 2015 00:00 IST
A comprehensive overview of independent India’s experiments in foreign policy.
In India, you’re shocked and astonished and amazed all the time: Steve McCurry
September 27, 2015 01:00 IST
Steve McCurry on the first photographs he took in India, what draws him to the country and his new book.
A Man of the People
September 26, 2015 01:13 IST
A collection of essays examines Jawaharlal Nehru’s role in making India but falls short on rigour and critical engagement
The scribe who came in from the cold
September 26, 2015 00:59 IST
Foreign correspondent and author Frederick Forsyth has chosen to be irresponsible by going behind the story in journalism in his memoir.
Faith in a Smart City
September 26, 2015 00:47 IST
India is no stranger to confusion and that is why the much-talked-of jugaad, muddling through or miraculously rescuing a situation at the last moment is so common. But the Kumbh Mela, according to the Harvard team, was a carefully planned and efficiently executed operation.
Bibhuti Nayak: A Life of Records
September 26, 2015 00:01 IST
In Man on Fire, British author Stephen Kelman chronicles the story of Bibhuti Nayak, who holds a slew of records for extreme endurance activities.
The Pursuit of Happiness: Ex-auditor translates spiritual book from English into Punjabi
September 22, 2015 03:19 IST
The book has introduced seekers all over the world to yoga and meditation and is synonymous with simple and scientific ways to live a life of eternal joy and peace.
A book on how Gita Press became a success in redirecting Hinduism
September 19, 2015 19:01 IST
The book is full of incidental insights across a range of subjects: the Hindi public sphere, the economics of publishing, labour relations within the press, new art forms.
How Deep is Your Love?
September 19, 2015 00:00 IST
Various kinds of attachments are the subject of Bangladeshi-American writer Abeer Y Hoque’s collection of short stories
From Bazaar to Factory
September 19, 2015 00:00 IST
Turning merchant speculators into industrialists was part of the Nehruvian economic project
After the Dark
September 19, 2015 00:09 IST
Sanjay Suri’s book on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots reinforces the belief that the Congress was complicit in the massacre and its subsequent cover-ups
Exploits of Satyajit Ray’s Prof Shonku now in English
September 16, 2015 18:33 IST
Stories of scientific exploits of the indomitable Professor Trilokeshwar Shonku, which have held readers spellbound for over five decades, are now available in English.
Indian-origin author among 6 shortlisted for Man Booker Prize
September 15, 2015 19:07 IST
Indian-origin British author Sunjeev Sahota is among six writers shortlisted for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction for 2015, it was announced here today.
Current Account
September 12, 2015 06:23 IST
A former SBI chief’s memoir deepens our understanding of economic policy of the ’70s
Readers, Digest
September 12, 2015 06:35 IST
A love song to the gastro-intestinal tract, as readable as a Lonely Planet guide to the innards
The Jinn is Out of the Lamp Again
September 12, 2015 08:50 IST
At its best moments, this book reveals a resurgent Salman Rushdie, crafting word pictures with wicked delight. At others, we are conscious of having been there, read that
‘Don’t write us off yet’: Sad tales of Delhi’s once loved bookstores
September 12, 2015 16:13 IST
...say owners of bookshops in Delhi that continue to stand as others shut down around them.
Rushdie’s latest novel: 1001 super-magical nights
October 7, 2016 17:05 IST
In Rushdie’s offering, the action begins in 1195 — the philosopher Ibn Rushd (from whom Rushdie’s father took the family name) has been exiled from Cordoba for 1,001 days.
The author has left the building: Terry Pratchett died as he had lived, on his own terms
September 6, 2015 01:00 IST
The Discworld has finally spun down, with Terry Pratchett’s 41st and last novel, The Shepherd’s Crown, out in the UK and US. It was released six months after tweets from Pratchett’s account announced his death.
An Aria of Darkness
September 5, 2015 04:01 IST
Buoyed by code words and the kindness of strangers, he moves furtively from place to place to evade the long arm of the law.
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