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Architects have to get away from the position of arrogance: Rahul Mehrotra
August 9, 2015 06:00 IST
Architect and conservationist Rahul Mehrotra on his new book, why the notion of smart cities is flawed and how he became an architect
Book Review: Nisid Hajari’s Midnight’s Furies gives a compelling account of Partition
August 10, 2015 12:05 IST
With the deft touch of a novelist, Nisid Hajari brings alive the Partition story with an elegance that keeps the reader turning the pages even if the broad strokes of the history may be familiar with her.
The Politics of Inequality
August 8, 2015 01:20 IST
A look at the chasms created by urbanisation in modern India and what that means to a developing nation
The Political is Personal
August 8, 2015 01:34 IST
A look at the changing contours of the language of war and peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Zarine Khan on her debut cookbook, Food Secrets
August 7, 2015 00:21 IST
Zarine Khan on her debut cookbook, Family Secrets, Parsi influences in her cooking and the Khan household’s famous biryani.
‘Curation is all about interaction and when that went away, so did the business, ’ says Ajitvikram Singh
August 6, 2015 00:48 IST
Ajitvikram Singh, who started Fact and Fiction in Delhi as a 29-year-old, talks about curation, interaction and closing the bookshop.
Before you forget, you have to remember: Nisid Hajari
August 2, 2015 01:00 IST
Writer Nisid Hajari on the great divide of 1947
How Daya Pawar’s autobiography became the template for the angry Dalit memoir
August 2, 2015 17:50 IST
Daya Pawar aka Dagdu Maruti Pawar was a genial, friendly person. Looking back at the life and legacy of Daya Pawar, as an English translation of Baluta is published.
On The Corner Shelf
August 1, 2015 00:30 IST
If you thought that was boring stuff, you could do well to read John Grisham in A Time to Kill, a racy thriller about a black man facing a death term for killing his daughter’s rapists, which was also made into a Hollywood film.
The Theatre of Cruelty
August 1, 2015 00:20 IST
Jessica Stern and JM Berger’s ISIS: The State of Terror offers a thorough first cut of the history of the Islamic State — the organisation which has most effectively practiced that message.
Those That Time Forgot
August 1, 2015 00:07 IST
Sagari Chhabra’s In Search Of Freedom: Journeys Through India and South-East Asia is an attempt to explore a few streams that fed the river of independence.
Beyond the Boundary
August 1, 2015 00:05 IST
A novel about a Tamil teenager in post-war Sri Lanka pits humour and hope against the horror of conflict.
Class, without consciousness
August 1, 2015 00:05 IST
A book on the fabled Allahabad University takes shelter in the romantic distortions of nostalgia when faced with the present.
Sanjay Suri: Three thousand murders and no justice. Is this not betrayal?
July 28, 2015 00:08 IST
Thirty years after he reported on the 1984 riots, Sanjay Suri gives a scalding account of it in his book.
Birds of a Feather: Two classics of Indian ornithology get a new life
July 26, 2015 01:00 IST
Apart from the recommended doses of Bulbul Sharma and Valmik Thapar, Aleph is reprinting the classics of Indian ornithology from the Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Writer Amrita Shah on her new book Ahmedabad: A City in the World
July 26, 2015 01:00 IST
In her new book, writer Amrita Shah looks at how violence and development shaped Ahmedabad’s encounter with 21st century modernity.
A Tale Retold in Another Tongue
July 25, 2015 04:59 IST
An English translation of the first Dalit autobiography refreshes the hard-hitting portrayal of the lives of people from the Mahar caste.
Behind the Scenes
July 25, 2015 04:55 IST
A mother who acts, a child who seeks attention and a Party out to purge the city of bad art – the world of theatre comes alive in this Kolkata novel
The Perfect Murder: Book on Aarushi Talwar poses uncomfortable questions
July 27, 2015 16:32 IST
Through two broad chapters on the investigation and the trial, Avirook Sen presents how the Talwars were hit with a double whammy: a shoddy and insensitive investigation by the UP Police and the CBI and what Sen believed was a premeditated judgment.
Learning to Unlearn
July 25, 2015 04:39 IST
A book that questions many long-standing sources that establish Nalanda as a seat of higher learning, placing it instead in the heart of monastic practices in ancient India
‘Ragtime’ author EL Doctorow dies at 84; his books taught me much, says Obama
July 22, 2015 08:07 IST
Writer EL Doctorow, 84, died yesterday at a New York hospital from complications of lung cancer
C Raja Mohan’s ‘Modi’s World’: Eye on the World
July 21, 2015 08:27 IST
PM Narendra Modi’s foreign policy initiatives were the talking point at the release of C Raja Mohan’s book in the Capital.
P Muthuswamy: The man who published books that simplified government rules
July 19, 2015 01:00 IST
All central government offices have a rule book written by P Muthuswamy. Who was the man and how did he come to write these books?
Book Launch: All for cooperation with neighbours, firm if needed, says S Jaishankar
July 18, 2015 05:26 IST
The book gives a detailed account of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vigorous diplomacy and offers meaningful insights into his foreign policy.
On a Bus to Bharat: A wife-husband team take off on a wanderjahr
July 20, 2015 14:25 IST
A wife-husband couple take off on a wanderjahr. The book is worth the journey.
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