What we owe to literature: A global odyssey across the centuries
By Vikas Datta
Title: The Written World - How Literature Shaped History; Author: Martin Puchner; Publisher: Granta Books; Pages: 433; Price: Rs 699
In that splendid...
‘The RTI Story: Power to the People’ a memoir-cum-textual tome
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Book: The RTI Story: Power to the People; Author: Aruna Roy with the MKSS collective; Publisher: Lotus Roli; Pages: 375; Price: Rs...
The future of liberal arts in the digital world
By Saket Suman
Book: The Fuzzy and the Techie; Author: Scott Hartley; Publisher: Penguin; Price: Rs 599; Pages: 301
There are two very common terms used...
AFSPA slap on face of Constitution, Supreme Court, Parliament
By Aroonim Bhuyan
Title: Strangers No More; Author: Sanjoy Hazarika; Publisher: Aleph; Price: Rs 799; Pages: 420
With the Union Home Ministry last month removing the...
The ignored, inconvenient truth about the Islamic State
By Vikas Datta
Title: The Way of the Strangers - Encounters with the Islamic State; Author: Graeme Wood; Publisher: Penguin Random House; Pages: 352; Price:...
‘Return to Jammu’ : A coming of age novel with autobiographical interludes
By Mohammed Shafeeq
Book: Return to Jammu; Author: V. Raghunathan; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India; Price: Rs 399; Pages: 346
This is the engrossing tale of Balan,...
Marx: A discredited theorist or a far-sighted prophet?
By Vikas Datta
A huge statue of Karl Marx was unveiled in his birthplace in the German city of Trier to mark his 200th birth...
Book Review: Unspoken wisdom that only megaliths can impart
By Kishori Sud
Title: The Archaeoastronomy of a Few Megalithic Sites of Jharkhand; Author: Subhashis Das; Publisher: Niyogi Books; Pages: 127; Price: Rs 695
If you...
The demoted sun god is back for a tougher mission
By Vikas Datta
Title: The Burning Maze (The Trials of Apollo Book 3); Author: Rick Riordan; Publisher: Puffin/Penguin Random House; Pages: 448; Price: Rs 599
The...
Books by women priced lower: Study
New York-- A study of more than 2 million books has revealed that titles by female authors are on an average sold at just...
