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The root of all evil
September 5, 2015 04:01 IST
Calcutta gentry look down on those who seek money. A young man tries to find out if it’s worth the derision.
Such a long journey
September 5, 2015 04:01 IST
Economist, philosopher, thinker, Sanskrit scholar and activist, the tireless Sen wears many hats.
Looking East and Linking West
September 5, 2015 04:01 IST
This neat checkerboard brings wonderful clarity if you plan to sell weapons to people, or menace people with weapons, the principal executive actions of geopolitics.
Expert finds Harper Lee’s mystery papers are not a third novel
September 2, 2015 16:11 IST
In Lee’s hometown Monroeville, which the fictional town of Maycomb was based on, many were disappointed that the newly discovered papers would not lead to another book.
In Baat Niklegi Toh Phir, Sathya Saran traces Jagjit Singh’s prolific journey
September 1, 2015 12:26 IST
Sathya Saran’s book on the late Jagjit Singh’s life - Baat Niklegi Toh Phir brings together stories by family and collaborators.
Best-selling self-help author Wayne W. Dyer dead at 75
August 31, 2015 11:48 IST
Best-selling self-help author and motivational speaker Wayne Dyer has died, his family said in a post on his official Facebook account on Sunday. He was 75.
Anjum Hasan’s fiction explores the angst and uncertainty of the new urban Indian
August 30, 2015 02:30 IST
Anjum Hasan’s fiction inhabits these city limits. Her characters are people uncomfortable in the swim of the big city, caught often between nostalgia and self-discovery.
Book Review: After the Crash
August 29, 2015 00:42 IST
The new thriller keeping readers up all night is from France, and involves a detective on the edge.
Book Review: The Water Book
August 29, 2015 00:38 IST
A fascinating account of water in all its forms that holds surprises even for the initiated.
Book Review – Sri Lanka in the Modern Age: A History
August 29, 2015 00:31 IST
A history of Sri Lanka shows how the politics of community identity has left the island divided
Book Review – The Raj At War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War
August 29, 2015 00:26 IST
Rich in detail, Yasmin Khan’s history paves the way for a more complex understanding of WWII as India’s war.
Brave New World
August 27, 2015 00:00 IST
French science fiction writer Pierre Bordage on the ‘destruction of everything’ and the possibility of an Indian readership
Book review – The Tears of the Rajas: Mutiny, Money and Marriage in India, 1805-1905
August 22, 2015 00:00 IST
A chronicle of imperial rule in 19th century India, largely through the life and times of a clan of redoubtable Lowland Scots.
Book Review – Hubris: Why Economists Failed to Predict the Crisis and How to Avoid the Next One
August 22, 2015 00:00 IST
A light-hearted look at what ails global economics.
Book Review: Stephen King’s Finders Keepers
August 22, 2015 00:00 IST
In his latest novel, Finders Keepers, Stephen King returns to one of his most compelling scenarios, one that he laid out for us in his much older Misery.
Book Review – Gaata Rahe Mera Dil: 50 Classic Hindi Film Songs
August 22, 2015 00:00 IST
A book that tells the story behind some of Bollywood’s most popular film songs.
Book review: Radhakrishnan Pillai’s ‘Chanakya In You’
August 17, 2015 17:30 IST
'Chanakya In You' can be read for its sheer positivity and for the beginners, this might be just the right book to know about Chanakya and his king-making abilities.
I know I can’t inspire any reader: Kiran Nagarkar
August 16, 2015 01:00 IST
Writer Kiran Nagarkar, 73, on how he came to write the Ravan and Eddie trilogy, why Bollywood is everything life is not and the importance of humour and transparency in his works.
Kashmiri cartoonist Malik Sajad’s graphic novel, Munnu, unveils life in the valley
August 16, 2015 01:00 IST
Eight years after Kashmir Pending, written by Srinagar-based writer Naseer Ahmed along with illustrator Saurabh Singh was published in 2007, Munnu is the second graphic novel to emerge from the valley.
Book Review – Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers’ Words and Photographs
August 15, 2015 00:07 IST
The human cost of one of WWI’s most disastrous campaigns.
‘The Year of the Runaways’ Book Review: The wanderers
August 15, 2015 00:00 IST
A novel about migrants in Sheffield confirms Sunjeev Sahota’s remarkable talent.
‘Rest in Peace’ Book Review: Laugh, for the end is near
August 15, 2015 00:00 IST
Kiran Nagarkar’s trilogy is a love letter to a city that no longer exists. In this last of the novels, chance makes fools of Ravan and Eddie yet again, but they remain characters who defy gravity.
‘The Cosmopolitans’ Book Review: Nostalgia Must Die
August 15, 2015 00:00 IST
In between this new and news, always stale and arriviste, history and tradition, religion and the secular, patentable individualism and tradition-drugged “folk”, falls the shadow of The Cosmopolitans.
‘Nonsense’ words in Gulliver’s Travels decoded
August 12, 2015 16:54 IST
Certain "nonsense" words that Jonathan Swift introduced in his 1726 novel "Gulliver's Travels” are actually willful distortions of Hebrew, says a linguist from the University of Houston.
The Patels of Pali Hill
August 9, 2015 06:00 IST
A new book traces the story of the people behind one of the earliest film journals in India
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