Picking up on the title of one of the more spectacular James Bond books, Govind Dholakia, has embarked on the story of how he reached the heights of the diamond business after his birth into a humble agricultural family in a small village in Gujarat.
Author Amitava Kumar on the importance of keeping a journal, juggling words with drawings, and writing fiction in the time of fake news
Vini’s past and Jay’s present, are peppered with wise adults and anxious friends, not to mention managing girlfriends who ride on high-income high voltage...
The book would be a right read now in this right world. We can sense the totalitarian force hitting our doorsteps with the dissolution of democracy.
Malati Mukherjee’s translation of Bitan Chakraborty’s 'Redundant' is a lesson in empathy for outsiders trying to find a foothold in the city of their...
A new book examines the popular 20th-century perceptions as documented in Hindi novels of four authors who were also political activists, and interprets their...
Baljit Kaur is a trailblazer, but also a woman—like too many of our mothers and grandmothers—whose decades-long contributions have received scant...
Moushumi Kandali's stories are crafted carefully and therein lies the overall slight: they are too well constructed in terms of themes and the references they...
The novel follows the story of Villie, a hunter by profession and Guardian of the Forest, as he moves between worlds and alternate realities.
An engrossing Hindi read on Amma’s mind, her daughter, and above all her heart and its longings.
Unlike other newspaper columnists, this book's author manages to skirt the mundane everyday politics and inhabit a space that is more esoteric: books,...
In his novels, Silas House deflly captures the varied landscapes of the American South, both emotional and physical. The eight essays in Silas House, which...
All said, the book feels a bit underwhelming. There are too many characters doing too many things and the nature of not all things are fully fleshed out.
The author explores key issues of happiness and success and lays down ways in which these can be achieved while dealing with the everyday challenges of life.
The world of Turning Red is unabashedly women’s. Its central characters — all women and girls — overthrow the prescribed script of norms that robs women...
Among all the stories, Dean is most intrigued by the location of the Stone Tower. It was somewhere at the Silk Route’s mid-point that was a halting spot for...
A clever satire that uses humour, wit, irony and sarcasm to draw parallels of patriotism that has been hijacked by jingoism
The book informs us that one cannot escape the consequences of our bad Karma. No one will partake in sharing such consequences as well
Scientist and statistician P.C. Mahalanobis had a deep faith in the computer’s ability to transform economic management. He first saw a digital computer in...
Dutch historians released an in-depth criticism of a new book about who betrayed the Jewish teenage diarist and her family in German-occupied Amsterdam during...
Nirmal explains depression and anxiety both — the lows and the jitters — but I don’t remember what she says exactly. I just nod at the words that filter...
The seventh novel by the celebrated author of ‘English, August: An Indian Story’, which satirised India’s bumbling bureaucracy, is a crime thriller that...
You can’t explain love to a plant or philosophy to a dog. We feel only what we understand. And he felt love for me. He wanted me to understand that.
In the new normal, it is time desire for happiness is integrated into work and workplace. Massive reductions in working time are not only desirable for our...
Michał Witkowski’s novel ‘Eleven-Inch’ explores the impoverished, and imperfect, lives of two queer teenagers from the post-communist East European...