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India's delectable desserts

23 Oct 2022 12:09 AM IST
The Sweet Kitchen provides a ringside view into the history, origin and cultural influences of iconic sweet dishes — along with their recipes — that...

Tales with a tragic touch

16 Oct 2022 12:10 AM IST
The Bleeding Border — edited by Joyjit Ghosh & Mir Ahammad Ali — is a rare anthology of 24 poignantly-written Bengal Partition stories by both...

An abstruse side of Kalam

16 Oct 2022 12:06 AM IST
In the biography ‘Kalam’, RK Prasad — his private secretary — narrates unheard stories of his life, including his interactions with prominent...

Obscure side of a self-made genius

8 Oct 2022 9:01 PM IST
In Iconic Indians, Sanjeev Sanyal and Rajesh Singh narrate the transformational story of post-independent India by weaving together the life accounts...

A compendium of Anglo Indian community

8 Oct 2022 8:58 PM IST
The Anglo Indians by Barry O’ Brien is a comprehensive history of the community — providing a ringside view into their heritage, culture, literature,...

A versatile music maestro

24 Sept 2022 11:19 PM IST
The biography, ‘Many Lives of Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna’, by Veejay Sai captures multiple hues of the life of the globally acknowledged Carnatic...

Indo-Saracenic buildings: confluence of architectural styles

24 Sept 2022 11:17 PM IST
Vinoo N Mathur, through his well-researched book, ‘Indian Railway Buildings’, takes readers into the fascinating world of colonial railway...

Essence of human existence

18 Sept 2022 1:34 AM IST
The travelogue, ‘In Search of the Pitcher of Nectar’, In the course of chronicling Samaresh Bose’s pilgrimage to Kumbh Mela, paints a clear picture of...

History of making and unmaking

18 Sept 2022 1:31 AM IST
'Inked in India' is a ground-breaking work by Bibek Debroy & Sovan Roy on the history of fountain pens and ink-making in India; it also presents an...

Life of a legendary rebel

11 Sept 2022 2:24 AM IST
Som Kamei’s monograph — ‘Rani Gaidinliu’ — enlightens readers about the extraordinary life of the freedom fighter who had to fight on two fronts —...

Back to spotlight, brighter

3 Sept 2022 11:45 PM IST
EP Unny, in the monograph ‘RK Laxman’, discusses how the evocative sketches by the Mysore-born legendary cartoonist have come to catch the present-day...

Economy through a wider prism

27 Aug 2022 11:23 PM IST
Vivek Sood’s ‘Progress of the Indian Economy’, through analysing certain legislations passed after 2015, provides readers with a novel perspective of...
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