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Books to look out for this week

17 Jul 2020 05:37 AM IST

Shameless Taslima Nasreen HarperCollins, Rs 399 Shameless is an uncompromising, heartbreaking look at ordinary people’s lives in our troubled times. ‘My name is Suranjan. You don’t recognise me? You wrote a novel about me called Lajja.’ One day in Calcutta, Taslima suddenly finds herself face-to-face with Suranjan, the protagonist from

An insider’s account of India’s economic reforms

10 Jul 2020 06:02 AM IST

Montek Singh Ahluwalia’s book almost handholds the reader through the country’s ‘high growth years’ while simultaneously arguing for the dire need of the economic reforms, writes Vidya Bhushan Arora.

A timely book on changing face of Indian democracy

10 Jul 2020 06:01 AM IST

Former US President Barack Obama famously said, “There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter.” That’s the beauty of democracy. Each and every vote matters. In a country like India where there is great disparity in terms of wealth, elections serve as the great equaliser. For, whether a

Books to look out for this week

10 Jul 2020 06:01 AM IST

36 DAYS: A Political Chronicle of Ambition, Deception, Trust and Betrayal Kamlesh Sutar Rupa, Rs 295 The battle of Kurukshetra described in the Mahabharata lasted for 18 days. But in the aftermath of the 2019 Maharashtra assembly elections, another battle was fought — though not on any battlefield. It went

Akbar may have been great but why just single him out?

03 Jul 2020 05:33 AM IST

Ira Mukhoty’s ‘Akbar: The Great Mughal’ is an engaging, endearing book, definitely much better than what the title suggests, writes Utpal Kumar.

An appetiser, not the main course

03 Jul 2020 05:29 AM IST

There are several versions of the Ramayana story. Despite some regional variations, the Mahabharata story is essentially one. For Ramayana, there are Sanskrit and non-Sanskrit versions. For example, in Sanskrit, we have (1) Valmiki Ramayana; (2) Adhyatma Ramayana; (3) Yogavasishtha Ramayana; (4) Rama’s story in Raghuvamsham; and (5) Ramayana story

Books to look out for this week

03 Jul 2020 05:28 AM IST

In The Land Of The Lovers Sakoon Singh Rupa, Rs 295 In the absence of her parents, Nanaki, a fiercely sensitive young woman, is brought up by her grandparents in a quaint Chandigarh neighbourhood. She grows up to be an artist and a professor in an art college. As Nanaki

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