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 but little changed for...
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 Tree; Pages: 155; Price: Rs...
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 period; go through a...
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 be the ultimate form of rejection...
Book Review: The Sting of the Peppercorns: a vivid slice of Goa in the...
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Book: The Sting of Peppercorns; Author: Antonio Gomes; Publisher: Amaryllis; Pages: 240; Price: R. 325
Antonio Gomes' "The Sting of the Peppercorns" is...
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
An Indian minister has made himself...
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 699
Shashi Tharoor's new book on...
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 Literature Festival. The second...
Book Review: Contemporary uncanny: Modern-day mysteries that defy solution
By Vikas Datta
Title: The Mysterium: Unexplained and Extraordinary Stories for a Post-Nessie Generation; Author: David Bramwell & Jo Keeling; Publisher: Brewers/Hachette India; Pages: 256;...
Brown: The colour of toil but non-acceptance across the West?
By Vikas Datta
Title: Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone); Author: Kamal Al Solaylee; Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers; Pages: 344;...