Book Reviews

The book offers a generous sprinkling of information, lived experiences, mythology and a stellar cast of performers

Kanika Singh’s book examines how the modern tradition of realist painting shaped Sikh perceptions of their own past

From the unwanted mosquitoes and cockroaches to the intelligent pigeons and monkeys, they all have their stories to tell and the author lends them a voice

In this book, game designer Abeer Kapoor and graphic designer Ujan Dutta reveal the political dimension without eschewing the anti-imperialistic rhetoric

Book Excerpt: An avid historian, his love for art was more than just a hobby, she writes

It is a poignant and potent book

First published in Urdu as ‘Maut Ki Kitaab’ in 2011, the book has now been rendered into supple, lyrical English by A Naseeb Khan

The book doesn’t merely recount battles; it thrusts you into their chaos and grandeur

It tells how today’s market is largely a result of these efforts

The book brings together a range of artists, art writers and friends to paint a character sketch of the artist

The book traces his evolution from a penalty-corner specialist and Olympic hero to an administrator at a university mired in factional politics

A mix of romance, fantasy, adventure, mystery tied together with the supernatural element in it, the book brings home the significance of family life and relationships that can be built

Justice Shah writes that the Collegium system has altered — unfortunately, to the detriment of the HCs — the relationships between judges of the HCs and the SCI

The book encompasses a memoir, Sindhi proverbs as well as a translation

What do night trains offer that day trains and planes can’t?

The author follows the Chenab, right from its birthplace in the upper Himalayas to its final embrace with the Arabian Sea

The book is a primer on the importance of military ethics in career choices

What happens when Avinash, a young Dalit boy growing up in a tin-roofed slum, comes to know of the centuries of oppression his ilk has faced?

Namita Devidayal’s ‘Tangerine’ is an introspective memoir