Book Reviews, Launches, Author Interviews, Excerpts

Laxman Rao, novelist and playwright, sold chai from his stall in Delhi until the lockdown

The author of 25 Hindi books, he’s received awards from NGOs and literary associations and been covered more than 100 times in print, broadcast and digital media

Fascinated; A Kathakakli dancer enacts a scene from the Mahabharata.

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Faithful to a fault: Aditya Sudarshan reviews Keerthik Sasidharan’s ‘The Dharma Forest’

Aditya Sudarshan This retelling of the Mahabharata is realistic unto distastefulness, chiefly because of the author’s intoxication with the source material

Reviews

‘Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century’ review: Constellation of words

Harsh Sethi Drawn from multiple languages, both native and imported, the 259 words in this volume provide a fascinating linguistic entry into contemporary India

Leather Bound

Burning hearts: ‘The True History of the Conquest of New Spain’ by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Aakar Patel

We see the Spanish conquest of Mexico happening before our eyes in Bernal Díaz’s graphic account

Reviews

‘Ghalib: A Wilderness at my Doorstep’: Fresh insight into Ghalib’s world

Poetry Books

Musings on the mirage city: Review of ‘The Kolkata Cadence’

Reviews

‘Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India’ review: A ‘museum’ of forgotten stories from the borderlands

Sudipta Datta Travelling 9000 miles over seven years, Suchitra Vijayan tries to understand India through her boundaries with Bangladesh, China, Myanmar and Pakistan

Books

A new chapter: How self-publishing is gaining ground among Tamil authors

Srinivasa Ramanujam It has resulted in the creation of authorpreneurs, who quench their creative thirst and make money

Books

This spy thriller set in Sri Lanka can give you the shivers

Deepa Alexander In his second novel ‘Yesterday’s Ghosts’, Nikhil Pradhan explores an unconventional form to tell a spy story set in war-torn Sri Lanka

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Epic Retold Faithful to a fault: Aditya Sudarshan reviews Keerthik Sasidharan’s ‘The Dharma Forest’

Aditya Sudarshan

This retelling of the Mahabharata is realistic unto distastefulness, chiefly because of the author’s intoxication with the source material

Reviews

‘Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century’ review: Constellation of words

Harsh Sethi

Drawn from multiple languages, both native and imported, the 259 words in this volume provide a fascinating linguistic entry into contemporary India

The conqueror: Statue of Hernan Cortes in Spain

Leather Bound Books

Leather Bound Burning hearts: ‘The True History of the Conquest of New Spain’ by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Reviews

‘Ghalib: A Wilderness at my Doorstep’: Fresh insight into Ghalib’s world

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This spy thriller set in Sri Lanka can give you the shivers

Deepa Alexander In his second novel ‘Yesterday’s Ghosts’, Nikhil Pradhan explores an unconventional form to tell a spy story set in war-torn Sri Lanka

Books

Shweta Taneja delves into inventions and discoveries by Indian scientists

Mini Anthikad Chhibber Released on February 28, National Science Day, the flip book showcases the wacky side of science

Dr Deepak Ravindran, author of ‘The Pain-Free Mindset’

Interview Authors

Dr Deepak Ravindran on his book ‘The Pain-Free Mindset’ and longcovid treatment

S B Vijaya Mary In his book ‘The Pain-Free Mindset’, Dr Deepak Ravindran says pain is not a sign of danger but an evolutionary mechanism of protection

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Laxman Rao, novelist and playwright, sold chai from his stall in Delhi until the lockdown

Faithful to a fault: Aditya Sudarshan reviews Keerthik Sasidharan’s ‘The Dharma Forest’

‘Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century’ review: Constellation of words

Burning hearts: ‘The True History of the Conquest of New Spain’ by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

‘Ghalib: A Wilderness at my Doorstep’: Fresh insight into Ghalib’s world

Musings on the mirage city: Review of ‘The Kolkata Cadence’

‘Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India’ review: A ‘museum’ of forgotten stories from the borderlands

A new chapter: How self-publishing is gaining ground among Tamil authors

This spy thriller set in Sri Lanka can give you the shivers

‘Indian Icon: A Cult called Royal Enfield’ review: Journeys with the Bullet

Reviews

Epic Retold Faithful to a fault: Aditya Sudarshan reviews Keerthik Sasidharan’s ‘The Dharma Forest’

‘Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century’ review: Constellation of words

Leather Bound Burning hearts: ‘The True History of the Conquest of New Spain’ by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

‘Ghalib: A Wilderness at my Doorstep’: Fresh insight into Ghalib’s world

Authors

This spy thriller set in Sri Lanka can give you the shivers

Shweta Taneja delves into inventions and discoveries by Indian scientists

Dr Deepak Ravindran on his book ‘The Pain-Free Mindset’ and longcovid treatment

Other Articles

A cosmos of folklore and myth

‘Ghalib: A Wilderness at my Doorstep’: Fresh insight into Ghalib’s world

‘Midnight’s Borders: A People’s History of Modern India’ review: A ‘museum’ of forgotten stories from the borderlands

‘Keywords for India: A Conceptual Lexicon for the 21st Century’ review: Constellation of words

Musings on the mirage city: Review of ‘The Kolkata Cadence’

Laxman Rao, novelist and playwright, sold chai from his stall in Delhi until the lockdown

Burning hearts: ‘The True History of the Conquest of New Spain’ by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Then a hero comes along: Review of Devashish Makhija’s ‘Oonga’

Faithful to a fault: Aditya Sudarshan reviews Keerthik Sasidharan’s ‘The Dharma Forest’