Manil Suri: ‘Mathematics can trigger an emotional response’ In conversation with the mathematician and author of ‘The Big Bang of Numbers’.
To Sri Lanka, with love Shehan Karunatilaka’s complex relationship with home infuses the stories in this book with heart.
Tree story This expansive novel’s gifts are not easy to explain but will stay with you for a long time.
Saving Angelo da Fonseca It validates his attempts to forge a hybrid art that was neither completely Western nor Indian.
The advocate vanishes This unputdownable true crime story reconstructs a 1980s’ political murder in Karnataka.
New books on the shelves A range of refreshing reads, from South Africa’s slave ship history to Ambedkar up close and personal.
Book Review: ‘A Red-necked Green Bird’ is Tamil writer Ambai’s many-feathered fiction in translationAbhirami Girija SriramA clutch of variegated, life-affirming stories to read and revisit as we emerge from an age of forced social isolation.
Book Review: Jairam Ramesh's ‘The Light of Asia: The poem that defined the Buddha’ re-illumines Edwin Arnold’s epic poemAshok Thakur A brilliant resurrection of Sir Edwin Arnold’s 19th century poem on the life and teachings of the Buddha, which is sure to create more awareness about
Book Review: "Ranganayaki" by K. Bharathi is the saga of a community T. SriramanThe writer successfully captures the milieu of an upper middle-class Brahmin household with a keen eye for ethnographic detail.
Book Review: M. Mukundan's "Delhi: A Soliloquy" is an elegy for innocenceA.J. ThomasA nonchalant depiction of the personal tragedies of people as they unfold in Delhi during the war years in the 1960s and 1970s, the Emergency and the
Book Review: Abhishek Saha's "No Land's People" talks about the lack of transparency in citizenship determination in AssamDarshana MitraAbhishek Saha’s book captures the lack of transparency in citizenship determination in Assam and exposes the deep inequality in the relationship betwe
Muslim victims of false terrorism charges New book sheds light on struggle of Muslim victims of false terror after acquittalZiya Us SalamSeveral Muslims framed under bogus terrorism charges struggle to lead a normal life after their acquittal and release. A new book in Hindi, a product
Book Review: “Stigma: The machinery of inequality” by Imogen Tyler underlines the limitations of sociology in understanding itSusan RamAn ambitious new study of stigma that falls short on a number of counts.
Book Review Roots of Hindutva Ziya Us SalamThe book narrates the saga of the RSS and how the ideology of Hindutva that is unfolding in the political arena now should not just be traced to 2014
Book Review: Kabir Bedi’s memoir "Stories I Must Tell" is the tale of a star’s self-definitionSachidananda MohantyAs in some of the best literary works, the life stories by Kabir Bedi, the well-known actor who has carved out a place for himself in the cinema of th
Noam Chomsky Culture of resistanceSHELLEY WALIAThe New York Times has called Noam Chomsky "arguably the most important intellectual alive".
Book Review Book Review: M. Hamid Ansari's "By Many a Happy Accident" is more than just an autobiographyK.P. FabianFormer Vice President M. Hamid Ansari’s autobiography is more than just memoirs: it consists of reflections of a multifaceted personality and records
Interview S.Y. Quraishi: ‘Islam is not against family planning’ Ziya Us SalamInterview with S.Y. Quraishi, former Chief Election Commissioner, on his newest book.
The Art vs Artist conundrum and the audience that is between them An effective way of taking revenge against artists is to consign them to oblivion.
SlideshowColours of desireA mother’s sari collection feels like an act of vengeance against a life that had deprived her of small joys in her youth.
