Ira Pande The title of the book is both evocative and mysterious: is this a personal memoir of one of our most admired public activists, or a political statement of sorts? Before I go any further, let me put in...
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Laxmi Panda: The Story of Netaji’s Youngest Spyby Savie Karnel.Westland. Pages 221. Rs 350 From daring escapes to heart-pounding encounters, Laxmi’s missions are fraught with danger and uncertainty. Netaji’s youngest spy, she lost both her parents, railroad workers, in a...
Salil Misra The struggle against the mighty British imperialism had a certain grandeur about it. One important part of it was the great range of ways in which this struggle was fought. Many distinguished individuals from Maharashtra, Bengal and North...
Avay Shukla This book is a well-deserved tribute to perhaps the most recognisable group in the community of mountain climbers, but about whom next to nothing is known apart from their climbing exploits. The Sherpas are almost synonymous with the...
Sonya J Nair BORROWED from German, festschrift roughly translates into celebration writing. In my mind, it is the written form of a group of people raising a toast to a person of consequence on an important occasion like retirement or...
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Food historian and critic Pushpesh Pant is back with yet another book on Indian foods and recipes. ‘Lazzatnama’ is a cuisine-based chronicle of the diverse culinary landscape of the country. The book, divided into nearly 25 sections such as rice,...
Geetu Vaid Living in a world where online scams, frauds and political corruption are painfully common, one may underrate a more than five decades old case of Rs 60-lakh fraud committed on the country’s biggest bank by a caller...
Rajnish Wattas The book is a lavishly illustrated compendium of select houses designed by architects both new and experienced, across the length and breadth of India, sited in diverse geographies. The rich anthology, curated by Gauri Kelkar, includes “hillside...
Mrinal Pande I hesitated somewhat before agreeing to review this rather sombre-sounding door stopper of a book, ‘Gurus and Media’. Despite the introduction beginning in a somewhat ponderous Shashi Tharooresque style, one will be pleasantly surprised by the various perspectives...
Love in the Time of Hateby Rakhshanda Jalil.Simon & Schuster. Pages 435. Rs 699 Poetry, it is said, flourishes when all else is uncertain. Literary historian and translator Rakhshanda Jalil uses Urdu poetry to look at how the social fabric...
Vikrant Parmar Grit, determination, resilience, perseverance, loyalty and discipline combine in the persona of the lead protagonist of Harinder S Sikka’s novel ‘Gobind’. A larger-than-life character, Gobind can do no wrong; he can handle complex situations with ease, stand by...
Sandeep Sinha The collieries in eastern India abound in mineral wealth and equally rich are the lives of people who reside and work there with their tapestry of emotions. Through the eyes of two young boys, Sameer and Vipul,...
Ranbir Singh Edited by William Gould, Santosh Dass and Christophe Jaffrelot, ‘Ambedkar in London’ is a contextual exploration of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar’s experiences in the British capital, utilising a refreshing interdisciplinary approach. Merging the methodologies of history, urban studies,...
Salil Misra The British rule in India was like the plague. Though uneven in time and space, it nonetheless cast its shadow on all regions and all people. The Indian responses to it ranged from abject surrender, fierce resistance,...
A Fly on the RBI Wallby Alpana Killawala.Rupa. Pages 232. Rs 595 Harshad Mehta scam, liberalisation of the Indian economy — Alpana Killawala’s tenure with the communications department of the Reserve Bank of India coincided with a very vibrant phase...
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal Jassa Ahluwalia has done everything he possibly can to belong somewhere. Jassa’s journey traverses multiple identities and geographies, from being named Jasvinder Singh Ahluwalia at birth to an exploration of who an ‘Imperial Wonder Boy’ could be....
Inspired from the tragic love story of Lieng Makaw, a queen, and Manik Raitong, a pauper, this novel explores the nature of human existence, raising questions about earthly powers, godly dispensation, and where our anthropocentric attitude is leading us. Kathmandu...
Rakesh Chopra There are music lovers who do not just enjoy a song but take pains to know who sang it, which film it featured in, who wrote it and who composed it. Then there are those who even want...
Seldom have an artist’s birth centenary celebrations resonated across continents. But Syed Haider Raza was different. Having spent 50 years of his active life as a painter in Paris, he was as much theirs as he was ours. In 2023,...
Manoj Joshi The book is really about India and Pakistan, their neuroses and psychoses, as well as their real problems and the prospects of peace. What is new about the book is that it is mediated by a trained psychiatrist,...
Nehru’s First Recruitsby Kallol Bhattacherjee.HarperCollins. Pages 376. Rs 699 Ambassadors have tales to tell, believes Kallol Bhattacherjee, and he uses their stories to tell the tale of an India which was just rising from the ashes of war, famine and...
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