Book Reviews

The historian brings Man Singh alive with erudition, based on a wide archive

The author attempts to capture the essence of one of the Himalayas’ most beloved lake towns by blending personal recollections, historical fragments and contemporary observations

Italy’s first female Prime Minister since 2022, the author doesn’t camouflage or sugar-coat her fallibilities

The author dismantles the misconception of Sita as a passive figure

The book is a heartfelt tribute to the life of an Indian Army officer

The book recounts the success story of RK Malhotra, the man behind India's most iconic razor blade brands

The book is born of his intimate encounter with death

Narrative rationality collapses in story after story

The book questions scientific morality and political complicity

The author offers unadorned tales that feel genuine and intimately familiar, dwelling upon the small dilemmas of ordinary people

Pronoti Datta’s book on Mumbai’s food history reveals how one club’s quiet rebellion transformed the metropolitan city’s social and culinary landscape

At 52, RK Sinha was ready to handover his legacy, something that first-time promoters hesitate to do

For readers interested in the moral, historical and political underpinnings of vaccination, the book offers insight and perspective

This is a revised and expanded version of the late scholar Harbans Singh’s 1982 work

By demonstrating the pandemic’s lingering nature, the book underlines its detrimental effects

In this new anthology on Mumbai, the sea keeps returning — not just as geography, but as memory, metaphor and mirror

The author believes “there is still time to build machines that serve humans, rather than the other way round”