Book Review: Sri Lanka: A beautiful but blood-soaked country
By M.R. Narayan Swamy
Title: Elephant Complex: Travels in Sri Lanka; Author: John Gimlette; Publisher: Quercus (London); Pages: 518; Price: Rs 650
Sri Lanka has to...
Tagore’s works not translated perfectly : Gulzar
New Delhi--Translations of Rabindranath Tagore's Bengali works in English and Hindi are not up to the mark, according to eminent poet Gulzar, who recently...
Books This Weekend: Of finance, mystery, myth and wisdom
New Delhi-- Learn to read balance sheets and deploy funds smartly, flick through the mysterious story of a murder, read the interesting story of...
Book Review: How Jayalalithaa inched her way to the top
By M.R. Narayan Swamy
Title: Amma; Jayalalithaa's Journey from Movie Star to Political Queen; Author: Vaasanthi; Publisher: Juggernaut; Pages: 175; Price: Rs 299
When she entered...
My writing will never be the same, says author Perumal Murugan
New Delhi-- "My writings will be never the same. A censor is seated inside me and he is testing every word that is born...
Book Review: Grappling With Glory: India and its Wrestling tradition
By Vikas Datta
Title: Enter the Dangal; Author: Rudraneil Sengupta; Publisher: Harper Sport (HarperCollins); Pages: 274; Price: Rs 350
Sakshi Malik picked up the first medal...
Books This Weekend: Of oratory, diplomacy and pressure management
New Delhi-- Imbibe great oratorical skills, know about the real politik of the modern world, get introduced to the concept of pressure management and...
Tamil literature has a modern, vibrant idiom
By Somrita Ghosh
New Delhi--With a surge in translations of Indian literature into English, readers across the spectrum have been transcending the language barrier.
From novels...
Book Review: A Whirlwind in World Cricket: The West Indies at the Top
By Vikas Datta
Title: Fire in Babylon - How the West Indies Cricket Team Brought a People to its Feet; Author: Simon Lister; Publisher: Yellow...
Former LTTE No.2 was RAW agent: Book
New Delhi--An LTTE leader who was once a deputy to its supreme leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was a RAW agent, recruited as early as 1989,...
