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book review 2024
Has the IAS failed the nation? D. Subbarao shares his views
The narrative is straightforward, guileless, compassionate and full of insights
18 May 2024 2:11 PM
Book Review | Brilliance, empathy, simplicity qualities that define Subbarao
The subtitle of the book — Notes from My Life and Career — is significant
18 May 2024 1:55 PM
Book Review | If cooks could kill: The enigma of the ugly femme fatale
This novel gives you a delicious taste of modern Japanese food
18 May 2024 11:01 AM
Book Review | India, essentially liberal? If not, should we celebrate the death of its promise?
The author is a retired corporate honcho and a marketing wizard
27 Apr 2024 1:30 PM
Book Review | Fashionista-influencer discovers Goa’s susegad
Goagr@m is about Madhur, a young fashion designer who adopted social media as a business and branding tool
27 Apr 2024 1:24 PM
Book Review | Manifesto of Indian citizen shows constant vigil must for democracy
This is a remarkably simple but effective method of reminding citizenry that a fight for democratic rights and privileges is ongoing
20 Apr 2024 12:47 PM
Book Review | Jingoistic war fantasy presented as speculative fiction
The novel also throws a unique geopolitical situation into the mix
20 Apr 2024 12:41 PM
Book Review | Writing India’s own history of libertarian economic thought leadership
This is a book of economic and social history which shows future possibilities
06 Apr 2024 2:55 PM
Book Review | The importance of being an earnestly-radicalised, young Muslim
We see two sides of Mahmud throughout the book
06 Apr 2024 2:50 PM
Book Review | Anatomy of an Indian self-help guide
Chetan Bhagat knows his audience well and has catered to their needs quite flawlessly for over a decade now
06 Apr 2024 2:45 PM
Book Review | Nayanima’s testimony of Kabul’s fall has a few what-ifs, some caveats
Two days before Kabul fell to the Taliban the journalist proposed to write a despatch predicting its imminent takeover
30 Mar 2024 9:27 PM
Book Review | An old woman’s odd quest to find her co-wives
Antony’s prose is so lyrical that it can be set to music
23 Mar 2024 1:44 PM
Exactly how do we bring in selfless leaders, redraft democracy?
In effect, what democracy and democratic institutions require is periodic review, reflection, audit and redesign
23 Mar 2024 1:42 PM
Book Review | At waltz of Dragon, Elephant, Lion, Eagle, Nehru’s prescience
On the whole, the book offers us a reminder that the present may be equally difficult to weather as the storms over China gather afresh
23 Mar 2024 1:38 PM
Book Review | Scientist plays God in laboured science fiction
The writing is patchy: It’s good most of the way, though often self-indulgent, sometimes turgid, and occasionally just plain wretched
17 Mar 2024 1:06 PM
Book Review | Sympathetic detective, lame whodunit
It’s only towards the fag end of the book that the author remembers he promised us a serial killer, and gets his act together
17 Mar 2024 12:54 PM
Book review | A writer’s diary is a repository of ideas
One thread that runs through Kumar’s Yellow Book is the pandemic
09 Mar 2024 8:49 PM
Book review | Edge-of-seat thriller on an Indo-Pak showdown
Written in a simple style, with some Urdu sprinkled here and there, makes the book a good read
09 Mar 2024 8:40 PM
Book Review | When the fiction is so gratifying, can journalism be ever enough?
They expose systematically love jiihad, population jihad and Muslim appeasement with facts and figures
09 Mar 2024 2:15 PM
Book Review | Textbook on government foreign policy, not juicy thesis on Bharat
Foreign Minister Jaishankar's insightful analysis of India's global standing, though dense, sheds light on the nation's diplomatic victories
03 Mar 2024 12:00 AM
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