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Inexorable course of fate
10 Dec 2022 9:55 PM IST'What the Rains Foretold' — an English translation of Manoj Neelakanthan's 'Innalathe Mazha' — re-narrates the classic legend around the origin of...
Extravagance feeding off adversities
3 Dec 2022 10:31 PM ISTThomas Manuel's Opium Inc. is an excellent, authentic account of how the British Empire, under the garb of free trade, debilitated China and...
Nuggets of aesthetic brilliance
27 Nov 2022 12:06 AM ISTWhen Indian Flowers Bloomed in Europe is an informative text, accompanied with rare images, relating to 30 textile masterpieces from TAPI Collection,...
Delicacies and their panoramic past
20 Nov 2022 2:31 AM ISTNilosree Biswas’ Calcutta on Your Plate chronicles the centuries-old Bengal’s gastronomy — culminating from the intermingling of distinct historical...
A spotlight on real issues
20 Nov 2022 2:28 AM ISTIn the book ‘Sisterhood Economy Of, By, For Wo(men)’, Shaili Chopra tells untold stories about common women from different walks of life in an...
Glancing through a prism
12 Nov 2022 7:48 PM IST‘Through a Looking Glass’ by Aruna Chakravarti is a ‘breathless’ collection of short stories with female protagonists of varied yet identical...
A probe into provenance
6 Nov 2022 12:01 AM ISTKonrad Seitz’s ‘Origins of Orchha Painting’ — an English adaptation of his German work — is the first volume of a three-part series which provides...
Years of companionship
29 Oct 2022 9:41 PM ISTNadeem Khan’s fine translation of Savita Ambedkar’s Marathi autobiography — which goes beyond discussing Babasaheb’s intellectual prowess to reveal...
India's delectable desserts
23 Oct 2022 12:09 AM ISTThe 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 ISTThe 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 ISTIn 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 ISTIn Iconic Indians, Sanjeev Sanyal and Rajesh Singh narrate the transformational story of post-independent India by weaving together the life accounts...
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