Review: The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years
The Rolling Stones: Fifty Years Christopher Sandford Simon & Schuster Rs. 599 n pp 497 There’s ...
Review: The Chemistry of Tears
The Chemistry of Tears Peter Carey Faber Rs. 499 pp 288 Unlikely couples and wily inventiveness ...
Review: Dad’s The Word
Dad’s The Word: The Pleasures And Perils Of Fatherhood Soumya Bhattacharya Westland Rs. 225 pp 196 ...
Review: Bitter Wormwood
A simple narrative that highlights the challenges and hardships within Naga society
Review: How to Fight Islamist Terror from the...
A clever, self-reflective tale that lightly touches on the clash of civilisations, cultures and attitudes
To riches or ruin
Blame it on politics, says the latest analysis of why some countries are wealthier than others
Madan Mohan Malaviya: As secular as Gandhi
The best testimony that the Congress had virtually disowned Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya came when the author realised he was the only one who missing from the official collection of speeches of party ...
Review: Dad’s the Word
There’s a wonderful moment in Soumya Bhattacharya’s Dad’s the Word when he chances upon his daughter Oishi standing ‘self-absorbed ...
‘Can’t take India story for granted’
Ruchir Sharma, Morgan Stanley exec, on reasons why nations grow, or fail to grow
Review: Tiger head snake tails
An account of how British colonial scholars rediscovered emperor Ashoka remains incomplete without the wider political context
Review: Fish in a dwindling lake
A collection of stories that focuses on a forthright and human engagement with gender
Review: Ashoka
An account of how British colonial scholars rediscovered emperor Ashoka remains incomplete without the wider political context
Review: The world in our time, a memoir
A historian writes his memoir, sharing stories, spectacles, drama and some laughs
Review: His Majesty’s Opponent
Some great ‘ifs’ of history are like unconsummated loves: they gnaw at the mind, they tantalize, they torment with all the wistfulness of the ‘what might have been’.
Review: The Success Principles
The Chicken Soup for the Soul series has, since 1993, published more than 200 titles with over 500 million copies in print. And co-creator author Jack Canfield attributes its success to a lot of facto...
Review: Out of the Blue
This book is more than a chronicle of how a bunch of domestic cricketers turned giant-killers. It includes a series of compassionate portraits of cricketers on the margin whose worlds are far removed ...
Review: The Man Within My Head
The Man Within My Head is a fraught and tricky objective, but Pico Iyer goes about his business with perceptiveness, lightly-worn erudition, comic brio and considerable tactical nous.
Review: Tigers in the Emerald Forest
Like the earlier coffee table books authored by Valmik Thapar, Tigers in the Emerald Forest too gives the reader the best ringside view of the forest and its inhabitants, writes KumKum Dasgupta.
Review: The Song Seekers
Saswati Sengupta’s sprawling debut novel is a mystery story wrapped in a work of historical fiction. But it’s also a scathing indictment of how society uses that all-protective sheath called ‘tr...
Review: Green and Saffron
Mukul Sharma’s book is about a Hindu conservative reinvention of environmental politics in the age of globalisation. And to spice things up there is Anna Hazare, in the idyllic surroundings of Raleg...
A festival with a difference
Over April 21 and 22, Mumbai hosted its first literary festival for children. Held in the sprawling grounds of St Anthony’s School in Chembur in the city’s eastern suburbs, it was a wonderful occasion, filled with writing workshops, storytelling sessions, panel discussions, and much more. It was very heartening to...
Funny and furiousAfter the disappointment of his last book, The Possibility of an Island, Michel Houellebecq – called, among other things, “France’s greatest literary export” – returns to his audacious, sardonic self in his new novel, The Map and the Territory. While a lot is made of Houellebecq’s nihilism and despair (Elementary Particles,...
ask the expert
Is it right to twist mythology for a new story? Many books nowadays are inspired from myths. For instance The Immortals of Meluha seems to be the same.
Samit Basu and Mike Carey have collaborated to come with an Indian Graphic novel. I want to know what is the future of Graphic novels in India? Can we ever have writ...
discussion forum
User reviews
Art 
The Immortals...
by Amish Tripathi
Story 
The Storyteller’s...
by Omair Ahmad
Action A Prisoner...
by Jeffrey Archer
Motivational 
GO-GIVERS SELL...
by John David Mann
Fiction 
The Host
by Stephenie Meyer
Political 
Crimes Against...
by David Limbaugh