Books
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The burden of being brown in the world and a woman
By Himani Kothari Title: Trust No Aunty; Author: Maria Qamar; Publisher: Touchstone: Pages: 178; Price: Rs 599 If you’re a…
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Five books to look forward to in February 2018
By Saket Suman New Delhi–After an exciting start to the New Year with releases of over 30 books across genres…
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Books: untouchables, good friends, memory and mystery
New Delhi– Know a Dalit woman’s family history that goes back to the 1930s, when the Independence movement promised freedom…
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Chef Vikas Khanna a Buried Seed that bloomed
By Kishori Sud Title: Buried Seeds: A Chef’s Journey — The Story of Vikas Khanna; Author: Karan Bellani; Publisher: Wisdom…
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Books This Weekend: Partition, mythology and Parineeta
New Delhi– Know about partition’s unspeakable brutality through the story of a family that’s uprooted from its home during that…
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Book Review: The perils of negotiating with defectors — and surviving
By Vikas Datta Title: The Defectors; Author: Joseph Kanon; Publisher: Simon & Schuster: Pages: 304 Price: Rs 550 It may…
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Book Review: The Sting of the Peppercorns: a vivid slice of Goa in the 60s
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar Book: The Sting of Peppercorns; Author: Antonio Gomes; Publisher: Amaryllis; Pages: 240; Price: R. 325 Antonio Gomes’…
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The strange trio of Sex, Science and the State and its consequences
By Vikas Datta Title: Sex, Botany and Empire; Author: Patricia Fara; Publisher: Icon Science/Icon Books; Pages: 176; Price: Rs 399…
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Beyond the Hindutva debate, Shashi Tharoor’s new book a self-discovery of a ‘believing Hindu’
By Saket Suman Book: Why I Am A Hindu; Author: Shashi Tharoor; Publisher: Aleph Book Company; Pages: 302; Price: Rs…
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Many languages, one literature
(Editor’s note: This article, by Namita Gokhale, is the first of two exclusively written for IANS ahead of the Jaipur…
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