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Jul 23, 2020
Saikat Niyogi With Kashmir nestled within, Britain and Russia were engaged in an all-terrain, high-stakes tussle over land,...
Mar 27, 2020
Saikat Niyogi From Albert Camus's The Plague to The Inspector Maigret Series by Georges Simenon, here's a list of books you...
Sep 25, 2019
Saikat Niyogi Chittaranjan Das' first disagreement with Gandhi occurred over the quality of the Government of India Act 1919
Sep 25, 2019
Saikat Niyogi Mahatma Gandhi's patient battle with General JC Smuts, the colonial secretary of Transvaal in 1907, helped...
Apr 26, 2018
Saikat Niyogi Spanning 73 years, a survey of 12 murders splits open the depraved criminal mind. They show, too, the...
Mar 30, 2018
Saikat Niyogi Ashis Ray dismantles the ‘mystery’ of Netaji’s death through an intense scrutiny of evidence. The...
Jan 25, 2018
Saikat Niyogi Hermetically sealed disciplinary rigour is passe, says this book. Liberal arts-science college education...
Oct 13, 2017
Saikat Niyogi Within its slim girth, Manu Joseph’s new novel manages a bilious survey of things held dear in India,...
Sep 01, 2017
Saikat Niyogi English fiction makes a rare rendezvous with the eastern front in WWII. This journey through a corner of...
Jun 15, 2017
Saikat Niyogi Nadeem Aslam’s novelistic Lahore bristles with rage, hatred and a demonic energy, taking a magnifying glass...
Apr 18, 2017 Saikat Niyogi 'A typical Grimshaw scene is often a leafy, lonely lane skirted by a walled stretch, revealing a brooding...
Dec 08, 2016
Saikat Niyogi These tales, set in small-town Assam, speak of torments and desires, and are soaked in music
Oct 26, 2016
Saikat Niyogi Exactly a hundred years ago, the Great War was in full blast. The shock waves it set off still influence...
Jan 11, 2016
Saikat Niyogi The still waters of emotional stress that lie beneath rambunctious cooldom
Jan 11, 2016
Saikat Niyogi A journey of innocence to experience, of unrequited, selfless and selfish love, and love found and lost...
Jan 11, 2016
Saikat Niyogi Godard’s voluptuous, sunlit film is a shuffling, like so many cards, of motifs modern and classical
Nov 02, 2015
Saikat Niyogi Old magazines may seem to be a foreign country, yet they satisfactorily explain the bewildering present
Dec 15, 2014
Saikat Niyogi A photobook recalls, at many levels, the Great War’s impact on Indian soldiers, but treads lightly on the...
Mar 31, 2014
Saikat Niyogi An overview: the hope, the turning points, the causes, the belligerents, the impact, the futility...
Sep 02, 2013
Saikat Niyogi The selection and context-setting is impeccable, with a playful eye picking out the unusual along with the...
