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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,...

The common and uncontested perception is that the foreign correspondents stay in merry state with privileged dining, wining and roving spree into...

Singapore being the epicentre of international espionage seems like an unlikely plot device for an espionage thriller. And yet Khalid Talib’s debut...

When Delhi’s former chief minister Arvind  Kejriwal sat on a dharna near Rail Bhawan against the inaction of Delhi Police during the mid-night raid...

The famous German strategist, Carl Von Clausewitz had written in his seminal book ‘On War’ that, ‘War is merely the continuation of politics by other...

What has been often apologetically dismissed as Ambedkar’s utopia – his ‘impracticable, unfeasible dream’ of caste-less society – his ‘anti-Hindu’...

Right at the outset of Playing the Nation Game, Benjamin Zachariah – historian, musician, playwright and occasional poet – tells us why we do not need...

Love. In theory and practice. Let’s call Ira Trivedi’s India in Love that because the book, written about ‘Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century’...

Fiction is written because ‘art’ ultimately is not ‘life’ but borrows from experiences. This is why some of the greatest books are the ones where some...

Series. Something we always associated with television, but then books happened. The irony however is that these series gain momentous popularity the...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is an integral part of the Indian consciousness, if such a thing ever existed. School curriculums have played a part in...

T SR Subramanian – with an insider’s insight and outsider’s rage – has made a frontal attack on the ills of Indian government and bureaucratic setup...