The book has 11 chapters of conversations with personalities ranging from sports, politics, business and life in general
16 Feb 2025
The book has 11 chapters of conversations with personalities ranging from sports, politics, business and life in general
The book is rich in anecdotes
As the narrative unfolds, the book’s key message becomes manifestly clear: protecting the environment, including trees, animals and birds, must function at an emotional level
This translation by Tejwant Gill succeeds in bringing her poetic brilliance to a wider audience
The book is an attempt to piece together the early rise of the sport in India that mostly flourished due to the love of many individuals
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 says public sector privatisation policy, ‘Strategic Disinvestment Policy (SDP) 2021’ is a “watershed moment”
The absorbing accounts of the Europeans based in Calcutta put into shade the cruelness of colonialism
The book manages to pull back the shroud of mystery around a militant organisation with the depth and precision
The novel is a familiar stance in romance
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