Bookends: Love, travels and peeking into the future
New Delhi-- Flick through the tale of three women looking for love in the online dating space, wade through the story about a solitary...
Book Review: Battling terror on the city streets — and its costs
By Vikas Datta
Title: Soldier Spy; Author: Tom Marcus; Publisher: Michael Joseph/Penguin Random House UK; Pages: 326; Price: Rs 699
In today's world of uncertain and...
Book Review: The lost glories of Bangalore
By Saket Suman
Title: Askew - A Short Biography of Bangalore; Author: T.J.S. George; Publisher: Aleph; Pages: 116; Price: 299
Often referred to as the Silicon...
Book Review: A remarkable Indian renaissance man in riddles
By Vikas Datta
Title: Amir Khusrau - The Man in Riddles; Author: Ankit Chadha; Publisher: Penguin Random House India; Pages: 96; Price: Rs 299
He was...
Telling the City of Grace’s story: Lucknow’s diligent biographer
By Vikas Datta
The very name of Lucknow, its 'nazakat' and 'nafasat' still evokes a sense of elegant refinement and culture that no other city...
Sanskrit teaching should be made more engaging: Britain-based teacher-author
By M.R. Narayan Swamy
New Delhi--The only way to make Sanskrit popular in India is to teach it in an interesting way, says a Britain-based...
Jaipur Literature Festival to support emerging writers
New Delhi--For the first time, Jaipur BookMark, the B2B segment of the Jaipur Literature Festival, will invite budding authors to share a synopsis of...
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 House; Pages: 342; Price: 599
One...
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 Publications India; Pages: 320; Price:...
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; Pages: 320; Price: Rs 599
There...