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Book Box | Booker Prize-winning and other longlisted tales of the sea and sky
1 month, 1 week ago

Book Box | Booker Prize-winning and other longlisted tales of the sea and sky

Hindustan Times  

Autumn is turning into winter. Orbital by Samantha Harvey Reading the Booker Prize shortlisted quietly contemplative Stone Yard Devotional, I am comforted to find author Charlotte Wood objecting to these supermarket sachets. In Orbital, I am in outer space with four astronauts and two cosmonauts watching “the continents and oceans fall away beneath — the lavender Arctic, the eastern tip …

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Book Box | Fast-paced feel-good books
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Book Box | Fast-paced feel-good books

Hindustan Times  

These last few days, on trips from the market, my backpack has been bursting — butter and baking powder for apple crumble, bread, eggs, lettuce and tomatoes for sandwiches. Starter Villain Book 1 of 4: Starter Villain by John Scalzi: PG Wodehouse meets Douglas Adams in this snarky sci-fi story set in a start-up world where villains rule the world. …

Book True Sonya Dutta Choudhury
Book Box | How to be alone
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Book Box | How to be alone

Hindustan Times  

I wake up alone to leaden skies. There’s Of Mountains and Men, Himalayan Circuit and Stern Reckoning, a book of Partition stories, The Last Mughal and also my favourite — his quaintly titled memoir Memory’s Gay Chariot. There are the books I read as a teenager during my summer holidays, here in Manali — The Dam Busters, a World War …

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Book Box | Why leaders should read science fiction
4 months ago

Book Box | Why leaders should read science fiction

Hindustan Times  

On a Tuesday afternoon in Mumbai, I tell a class full of management students that reading science fiction will make them better leaders. “It is better for leaders to read actual science,” points out a young man on the left. Book 1 of 3: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card: Three siblings compete in this page-turner of a novel - …

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Book Review | The 15 women who drafted the Indian Constitution
4 months, 1 week ago

Book Review | The 15 women who drafted the Indian Constitution

Deccan Chronicle  

All of them battled systemic misogyny. Sarojini Naidu, Hansa Mehta, Malati Choudhury, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, Purnima Banerji and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit followed Gandhian non-violence. For example, did you know that Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, born Swarup Kumari Nehru, was first married to journalist Syud Hossain but was forced by Motilal Nehru to divorce him? Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit became the only Indian …

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Book Box | My emotional reading journey through the Women's Prize shortlist
7 months ago

Book Box | My emotional reading journey through the Women's Prize shortlist

Hindustan Times  

When I look at a literary shortlist, I want to read all the books on it. The books are set in different countries and times — River East, River West in China, Enter Ghost in Israel-Palestine, Brotherless Night in Sri Lanka, Restless Dolly Maunder in nineteenth-century Australia, The Wren, The Wren and Soldier Sailor in Ireland. I head for my …

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‘To solve Manipur, we need flexibility,’ says Samrat Choudhury, author of Northeast India: A Political History
1 year, 3 months ago

‘To solve Manipur, we need flexibility,’ says Samrat Choudhury, author of Northeast India: A Political History

The Hindu  

Author and journalist Samrat Choudhury’s third book comes at the time Manipur is front and centre of the national conversation. Northeast India — A Political History is a “simple, readable, popular history” of the region that maps its long journey from isolation to integration. We have to acknowledge that the basic task of nation-building, building a country out of 562-odd …

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Book Review: ‘Song of the Golden Sparrow: A Novel History of Free India’ by Nilanjan P. Choudhury
1 year, 8 months ago

Book Review: ‘Song of the Golden Sparrow: A Novel History of Free India’ by Nilanjan P. Choudhury

The Hindu  

Published : Apr 20, 2023 11:00 IST - 7 MINS READ We inhabit a time when political agendas drive the rewriting of history. Nilanjan P. Choudhury’s novel Song of the Golden Sparrow begins with the caveat that all of history is an account of the past “filtered through the sieve of prejudice”, cautioning the reader to set aside their expectations …

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HT reviewer Samrat Choudhury picks his favourite reads of 2022
2 years ago

HT reviewer Samrat Choudhury picks his favourite reads of 2022

Hindustan Times  

About 10 years ago, out looking for a good cup of South Indian filter coffee in the Mumbai neighbourhood of Matunga, I stopped by to browse through some old books heaped up in front of a pavement bookseller. In his preface to the slim volume, the author, the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell, wrote, “Most of the following essays, which …

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Mira Nair And Sarita Choudhury Look Back At 'Mississippi Masala'
2 years, 8 months ago

Mira Nair And Sarita Choudhury Look Back At 'Mississippi Masala'

Huff Post  

In 1989, Hollywood had come calling for Mira Nair. That renewed buzz, along with the film’s 30th anniversary, got Nair thinking about how to bring “Mississippi Masala” back to the big screen. Emma McIntyre via Getty Images It’s hard to believe now, given Choudhury’s long career in film and television, but “Mississippi Masala” was her debut role. She auditioned for …

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Fate of a book on Indian democracy
3 years ago

Fate of a book on Indian democracy

The Hindu  

Discussions about democracy, the Constitution, citizenship and human rights have dominated public discourse in the past couple of years. In the first week of July, however, the writers were informed by their editor at Oxford that OUP India had decided to “review” the book again. Roy Chowdhury told Frontline : “We asked for the South Asia rights after we realised …

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