SherAli Tareen’s new book Perilous Intimacies is a work of deep scholarship on the debates around the possibilities of Hindu-Muslim friendship. The subtitle of the book ‘Debating Hindu-Muslim Friendship After Empire’ is the main culprit and source of ambiguity and confusion that led to a sense of betrayal of expectations for this reader. This impression is added to by one …
Candice Bergen hatched the idea for a sequel to “Book Club” before the first had even come out. It was 2017 and they were flying to a convention of movie theater owners to drum up excitement for their movie where she, Jane Fonda, Mary Steenburgen and Diane Keaton play friends who decide to read “Fifty Shades of Grey.” Like all …
When I was growing up, I had an impossible item on my wish list. Sibling Book 2 of 3: An Elder Brother to Follow Becoming. Read this riveting book for the power and hope of friendships in it, as the three friends try gamely to pull Jude back into life and living, spending time conversing and cooking together, experiencing life …
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T he Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Cooperation of 1971 between India and the Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, played a significant role in advancing India’s economic development. In this book, Achala Moulik, a former bureaucrat and leading scholar on Russia, has provided an outstanding account of the treaty’s impact on India’s development process. History of …
