Book Reviews

The reader can see why her stories, despite their remarkable endings, feel strangely inexhaustible

What explains its popularity? Is there a history to the themes of violence, heroism and martyrdom in the songs?

The author paints a canvas of post-Independence Delhi by tracing the everyday life of a large Punjabi family

Eschewing the usual biographical guardrails of timelines, author Rachna Singh narrates the conversations she had with the photographer and her observations and ruminations in 10 chapters

The book ends up throwing punches at the ‘moral’ Indian middle class

The book also maps the history of alternative cinema and theatre in India

Artworks produced at Nalanda had features of both Mathura and Sarnath with some local touch, Abhay K writes in ‘Nalanda: How It Changed the World’

‘The Elephant Book’ by Sowmya Rajendran is a captivating exploration of the profound relationship between humans and elephants

‘Thorns and Roses’ commands compulsive reading

Gyan Chaturvedi’s mastery over absurd situations sets the tone — where was the govt when the Bazaar was taking over everything?

‘The Grudges of Gajanan Godbole’ by Salil Desai is an unusual book which blends crime and comedy with apparent ease

‘The Story of Eve: Selected Poems’ is the first-ever collection of Zehra Nigah’s poems in English in a book form

Satya Mohanty objectively dissects the GST structure, banking and MSMEs, and state finances, to predict that far from being an Asian Tiger, the economy could be heading for a sustained slowdown

Coming after a gap of 16 years, Jeet Thayil’s new poetry book, ‘I’ll Have It Here’, is like looking into an abyss that sniggers back, shakes your conscience and asks uncomfortable questions

The author makes a case for reclaiming the cultural, religious and medicinal heritage of cannabis as our own, before it is expropriated by other countries

Mahatma Gandhi felt that if the machinery craze grows in our country, it will become an unhappy hand. As we commemorate his 76th death anniversary this month, here is revisiting what he wrote in ‘Hind Swaraj’