She picked the skull nearest her and held it up like Hamlet. “Logic and reason don’t belong to any particular group of people either,” she said out aloud. ‘Iru: The Remarkable Life of Irawati Karve’ by Urmilla Deshpande and Thiago...
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For two years, Saurabh Mukherjea and Nandita Rajhansa criss-crossed the country and interviewed over 50 leading minds in business, policymaking, media and academia. The result is this book, which portrays how 1.5 billion Indians are creating a range of unprecedented...
Stephen Alter is no newcomer to nature, wildlife and mountains of India as a writer, but this is a tour de force by any stretch. While much of wildlife writing is focused on the mega fauna, such as the tiger,...
Blending fiction, non-fiction and verse, ‘Our Stories, Our Struggle’ celebrates women’s resilience and their capacity to transcend victimhood. It amplifies voices of women across South Asia — from India to Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka — and challenges deep-rooted...
Manto’s writing has a conspicuous unfinishedness, as if he was reluctant to clean up after the act. The images have an unassimilated excess, a kind of subconscious overspill. Perhaps it is a sign of cultivated negligence, maybe a trace of...
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The master storyteller that he is, Dalrymple is able to fit together pieces of a vast puzzle and create a wonderful narrative
IPS officer Vijay Raman was a legendary figure in Indian policing, celebrated for spearheading the elimination of dacoit Paan Singh Tomar and his gang in Chambal, and later leading operations that liquidated the dreaded terrorist Ghazi Baba. This first-hand account...
Seated on a park bench in the Mexican city of San Miguel de Allende, Bonita, a young language student from India, savours the scene: children playing around the bandstand, a wandering balloon seller, and the pigeons strutting and bowing to...
Little known in the history of Indian Independence and the subsequent integration of territories into the Union is the chapter on the liberation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli that lies on the western coast. What makes the episode remarkable is...
‘Hum Dono’ brings out the creative relationship between brothers Dev Anand and Vijay Anand
The protagonists in ‘Aunties of Vasant Kunj’ are united in their struggle to define their identities
Geetanjali Shree’s 'Our City, That Year', translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, is her “most political book”
In his new book, Shashi Tharoor takes readers on a tour of the words, concepts and particularities that constitute the wonderland of the English language. He demystifies punctuation, guides through the arcane rules of spelling and grammar, and explains a...
The wonderful new book by violin maestro L Subramaniam may be titled ‘Raga Harmony: Harmonic Structures and Tonalities in Indian Classical Music’, but it is as much about the differences between western and Indian classical music. The most prominent difference...
Reading Avinash Shrestha’s poetry is a mixed experience. The poet clamours to express the ineffable, yet he falters to redeem poetry from the black hole of metaphysics or theology. The inordinate desire to speak without making sounds is inherently impossible....
Three years at Aligarh Muslim University and addressing a senior as Aapa (elder sister) becomes a cultivated habit. One that continued when I shifted to Jamia Millia Islamia. So, the suffix even with a Jewish name like Gerda would not...
AT the reading of his play ‘Sabse Udaas Kavita’, organised by the Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi in 2002, Swadesh Deepak asked his audience, “If a play doesn’t relate to society, what use is it?” Only a few weeks earlier,...
Even before you start reading the book, Sunitha Krishnan’s credentials and her work, listed on the backflap of her memoir, ‘I Am What I Am’, are quite impressive. Diminutive but fearless, Sunitha, a relentless crusader against sex trafficking, is the...
Love the Dark Days by Ira Mathur. Speaking Tiger. Pages 246. Rs 599 Growing up in Bangalore, Poppet unconsciously imbibes the prejudices of class and race of her maternal grandmother. When the family migrates to the multicultural Trinidad, she encounters...
The Silk Route Spy: The True Story of an Indian Double Agent by Enakshi Sengupta. HarperCollins. Pages 209. ~299 ‘The Silk Route Spy’ is the true story of a pre-Independence era double agent. Throughout his life, Nandlal Kapur was weighed...
Sarabjeet Garcha’s translation of Marathi playwright Mahesh Elkunchwar’s genre-dissolving triptych ‘Tribandha’ as ‘The Necropolis Trilogy’ sparkles and flows like wine. It is a memoir, an essay in three parts, a reverie, a fable, a desire, and a melancholic erotic fulfilment....
Reading another book on Kabir, offering a fresh experience, is always a delight. Kabir, a poet and philosopher of early modern India, has long been explored through various academic and popular lenses across India’s diverse traditions. As a saint and...
With war come endless tales of gallantry and grit and instances of performance above and beyond the call of duty. Many are preserved for posterity, while some fade into eternity and heroes die unsung. Also, in the wake of military...
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