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Artist of the floating world

23 Jun 2014 4:10 AM IST
In a country that has a published volume of poetry by its current prime minister, poets like Sridala Swami are both recluses and soft moons lighting...

From Cradle to the Book Shelf

23 Jun 2014 4:05 AM IST
You may think it’s difficult to write history because of the tedious process of fact collection and collation involved in it. You may also think it is...

Knights in shining armour

16 Jun 2014 4:47 AM IST
A collection of extraordinary short stories from the alumnus of Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC) - Veerkumars of Rajwada – is a spectacularly...

Those lives of others

16 Jun 2014 4:45 AM IST
So why have they come...are they seeking or are they running away?Rajkumari or Princess narrates a tale of love, heartbreak, desolation and never...

Animal spirits

9 Jun 2014 2:02 AM IST
The very real danger of extinction faced by the species panthera pardus, tigers in common parlance, is something that we are generally aware of. The...

A victim of its times

25 May 2014 8:47 PM IST
The mystique Tibet has always held amongst Western commentators is well chronicled. Despite posing great challenges to modern communication systems,...

Tender is the light

19 May 2014 2:28 AM IST
There are a few books and writers which take the meaning of writing as an extremely serious endeavour. Those writers are even rarer for whom writing...

Cry me a river

19 May 2014 2:26 AM IST
Can pain be mapped? Can obfuscations of an old decaying world embedded in the dank soil of a depleting forest, emanating from the rustling of luscious...

‘Pop fiction is underexplored in India’

12 May 2014 2:13 AM IST
Reema Ray, the kickass detective with a baking problem, is back with a bang! Last seen in The Masala Murder and the short story There Will Be Cake,...

BRAND IT LIKE BADSHAH

12 May 2014 2:08 AM IST
What is the first thing one needs when s/he decides to pen down a book? A topic. But just any topic won’t do. The topic has to be new or it must dare...

Bookending the Indian Ballot

5 May 2014 1:47 AM IST
In the middle of the ongoing political pandemonium, as India elects its 16th Lok Sabha members amidst brouhaha and balderdash, very few books have...

Aide You Like It

5 May 2014 1:44 AM IST
The reviewers (the ones I have read!) of Sanjaya Baru’s offering The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh have made,...
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