Books
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Book Review: Dark and provocative, Taslima Nasrin’s latest memoir a tribute to Kolkata
By Saket Suman Title: Exile – A Memoir; Author: Taslima Nasrin (Translated from Bengali by Maharghya Chakraborty); Publisher: Penguin Random…
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Book Review: Straddling romance and revolution: Faiz’s tumultuous life
By Vikas Datta Title: Love and Revolution: Faiz Ahmed Faiz – The Authorised Biography; Author: Ali Madeeh Hashmi; Publisher: Rupa…
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Dancing with Yasser Arafat and other escapades of a writer
By Vikas Datta Title: The Pigeon Tunnel – Stories from My Life; Author: John Le Carre; Publisher: Penguin Random House;…
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Humour must have a nugget of truth to be funny: Twinkle Khanna
By Arundhuti Banerjee Mumbai–Her debut book “Mrs Funnybones: She’s Just Like You and a Lot Like Me” gave readers a…
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Books This Weekend: Of gifts, tigers and letters
New Delhi– Flick through inspiring stories of powerful gifts; read about the Sundarbans, a vast tangle of mangrove swamp and…
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Book Review: An Arab Spring version of Aladdin?
By Vikas Datta Title: A Whole New World – A Twisted Tale; Author: Liz Braswell; Publisher: Paragon Publishing; Pages: 384;…
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Book Review: Explaining Trump’s rise and other strange things
By Vikas Datta Title: Winning Arguments — What Works and Doesnt Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the…
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Demystifying life’s daunting subjects, the Ashwin Sanghi way
By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi– It started off as a stand-alone, then expanded to a 13-book series. Now, says Ashwin…
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Making our futile but necessary lives meaningful Camus’ Absurd way
By Vikas Datta All religions are based on fate, or some divine design and control over humans, and so are…
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Britons suffer from ‘deliberate historical amnesia’, says Tharoor
New Delhi– Britain has constantly suffered from “deliberate historical amnesia” about their wrong-doings during their colonial rule in India, Congress…
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