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William Dalrymple The Golden Road Book Review: Ancient India, Global Trade and Buddhism
2 months ago

William Dalrymple The Golden Road Book Review: Ancient India, Global Trade and Buddhism

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 11, 2024 21:51 IST - 5 MINS READ William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road features a great amount of sea. The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World By William Dalrymple Bloomsbury Publishing Pages: 608 Price: Rs.999 There are several elements that stood out for me in the book. The Golden Road makes an important contribution in …

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Book Review: ‘Those Opulent Days’ is a mystery drenched in cruelties of colonial French Indochina
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2 months ago

Book Review: ‘Those Opulent Days’ is a mystery drenched in cruelties of colonial French Indochina

Associated Press  

It’s not often that a historical novel is set in the Vietnam of the 1920s, a period when the land in Indochina was occupied and exploited by French colonizers. “Those Opulent Days,” the debut novel of Jacquie Pham, is both — and a grim coming-of-age story as well. “The French ruled the colony,” she writes in the novel, “but they …

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'Unpartitioned Time' book review: History as Eulogy
4 months ago

'Unpartitioned Time' book review: History as Eulogy

New Indian Express  

This is a eulogy taken to an illogical extreme with a beautiful effect. In Unpartitioned Time: A Daughter’s Story, Malavika Rajkotia chronicles a gritty, painful yet sublime era and the many secrets it hides in its folds. There is history as history is taught in schools and colleges: of kings and statecraft, of the larger issues, of war, of Maharaja …

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'The Fifteen' book review: To be read and revered
4 months, 2 weeks ago

'The Fifteen' book review: To be read and revered

New Indian Express  

History has a way of erasing its traces. These questions are asked and answered succinctly by the authors of the book, The Fifteen: The Lives and Times of the Women in India’s Constituent Assembly. Still, the authors—Angellica Aribam and Akash Satyawali—have done credible research and told their stories, and it is an important first step. She married a man 23 …

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It Ends With Us review: Adaptation gets to the essence of Colleen Hoover's bestselling book
5 months, 1 week ago

It Ends With Us review: Adaptation gets to the essence of Colleen Hoover's bestselling book

ABC  

Adapted from Colleen Hoover’s 2016 New York Times bestseller, It Ends With Us arrives as one of the year’s most anticipated movies — at least for the fans of the novel, and they number in the millions. Fast facts about It Ends With Us What: Colleen Hoover’s New York Times bestseller about a florist who falls for a charming but …

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Game of life | Book review of Sunjeev Sahota’s ‘The Spoiled Heart’
7 months ago

Game of life | Book review of Sunjeev Sahota’s ‘The Spoiled Heart’

The Hindu  

After three novels, British-Indian author Sunjeev Sahota’s latest, The Spoiled Heart, is another skilful piece of work that confirms what a gifted writer he is. Nayan, a veteran unionist, with his “curdled charisma”, swears by “politics based around solidarity and universalism” and broad-based economic reforms to benefit the working class while Megha, the “change candidate” donning the badge of identity …

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Queenie review: Bitingly funny adaptation lives up to the brilliant book
7 months, 1 week ago

Queenie review: Bitingly funny adaptation lives up to the brilliant book

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy When Candice Carty-Williams’ debut novel …

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The Hindu on Books newsletter: ‘Gujarat under Modi’, Janaki Bakhle on Savarkar and Hannah Ritchie on saving earth
7 months, 1 week ago

The Hindu on Books newsletter: ‘Gujarat under Modi’, Janaki Bakhle on Savarkar and Hannah Ritchie on saving earth

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. However, as he writes in Preface 2023, the legal advisers of publishers found the manuscript to be of “high risk” with its “unyielding view of Narendra Modi’s regime” in Gujarat as Chief Minister. In 2001, Jaffrelot called Gujarat “a laboratory for Hindu nationalism” and in 2010, Howard Spodek called it …

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Book Review: Mrinal Kalita’s ‘Under the Bakul Tree’ provides a moral boost to teachers in a broken education system
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Book Review: Mrinal Kalita’s ‘Under the Bakul Tree’ provides a moral boost to teachers in a broken education system

The Hindu  

Published : Jun 01, 2024 17:43 IST - 3 MINS READ Saattai, a Tamil film starring Samuthirakani and directed by M. Anbazhagan, is the story of a teacher, Dayalan, defying the system of education in government schools to bring out his students’ potential. Under the Bakul Tree By Mrinal Kalita; translated by Partha Pratim Goswami Penguin India Pages: 328 Price: …

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Bluets review: Ben Whishaw and Emma D’Arcy lead slow, demanding Royal Court production
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Bluets review: Ben Whishaw and Emma D’Arcy lead slow, demanding Royal Court production

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy It’s a bold move for the Royal Court’s new artistic director …

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'Manohar Kahani' book review: A thrilling read that makes one revisit a time when chaos seemed enjoyable
7 months, 3 weeks ago

'Manohar Kahani' book review: A thrilling read that makes one revisit a time when chaos seemed enjoyable

New Indian Express  

Growing up watching Abbas Mastan’s movies was a great way to add some action to a calm weekend. Reading Raghu Srinivasan’s Manohar Kahani makes one revisit a time when chaos seemed enjoyable. Kalyani and Bambi were finally living the life they wished for A storm, however, comes knocking when a rich NRI from Africa wants to buy Kokum Grove. Manohar …

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Book Review: Coming-of-age meets quarter-life crisis in Fiona Warnick’s ambitious debut ‘The Skunks’
8 months, 1 week ago

Book Review: Coming-of-age meets quarter-life crisis in Fiona Warnick’s ambitious debut ‘The Skunks’

Associated Press  

Usually when I see a book described as an “ambitious debut” I read it as a cop-out. A coming-of-age novel with a quarter-life-crisis thrown in, “The Skunks” is told in a stream of consciousness with a cynical sort of oddball humor that’s completely Warnick’s own. Reading “The Skunks” is like drinking a cool glass of water on a hot summer …

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Book Review: Rachel Khong’s new novel 'Real Americans' explores race, class and cultural identity
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Book Review: Rachel Khong’s new novel 'Real Americans' explores race, class and cultural identity

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy In 2017 Rachel Khong wrote …

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3 Body Problem review: Game of Thrones creators return with dull, perplexing sci-fi for Netflix
9 months, 3 weeks ago

3 Body Problem review: Game of Thrones creators return with dull, perplexing sci-fi for Netflix

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The time-spanning, reality-shifting Netflix series has been ballyhooed principally because of …

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Book Review | When the fiction is so gratifying, can journalism be ever enough?
10 months ago

Book Review | When the fiction is so gratifying, can journalism be ever enough?

Deccan Chronicle  

The fact that this book has been published and that it nails the lies of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and its leaders, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, is a bold event in itself. A major segment of the Hindu majority, of all classes, do believe in many of the myths and lies spread about …

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Book Review | Textbook on government foreign policy, not juicy thesis on Bharat
10 months, 1 week ago

Book Review | Textbook on government foreign policy, not juicy thesis on Bharat

Deccan Chronicle  

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is easily one of the savviest foreign ministers India has had in recent times. He has been in the foreign minister’s chair now for almost five years and with the next general elections approaching he has come out with a book listing the great strides in foreign policy matters the Narendra Modi government has made since it came …

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'An uncommon love' book review | Ordinarily Extraordinary
11 months ago

'An uncommon love' book review | Ordinarily Extraordinary

New Indian Express  

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s first non-fiction book on the early life of Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy and author-philanthropist Sudha Murthy begins with a quote by Greek philosopher Heraclitus— “Character is destiny”. The book takes the reader back to 1974, when a young vivacious woman named Sudha Kulkarni, TELCO’s first woman engineer, met a serious and idealistic Narayana Murthy, who worked in …

Book Review | Aiyar’s Rajiv proves that there’s no one way to judge a dynast
11 months, 1 week ago

Book Review | Aiyar’s Rajiv proves that there’s no one way to judge a dynast

Deccan Chronicle  

This book appears to be part memoir, part biography. Perhaps the book may not have come about, at least not in its present form, if Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had not been hounded by political opponents and the media on the Bofors affair with insufficient care for the facts and an addiction to hypotheses in order to establish pre-determined end …

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Book Review: Iranian-born Kaveh Akbar pens an unforgettable portrait of the poet as a young man
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Book Review: Iranian-born Kaveh Akbar pens an unforgettable portrait of the poet as a young man

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. As he emerges from addiction, Cyrus has been employed …

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The Hindu on Books | Agyeya biography wins NIF Prize, reading Mary Beard, talking to Twinkle Khanna and more
1 year, 1 month ago

The Hindu on Books | Agyeya biography wins NIF Prize, reading Mary Beard, talking to Twinkle Khanna and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. The book sees the Hindi poet’s life as a microcosm of 20th century cultural history, with a formidable cast of characters from writers like Premchand – who gave him his moniker; Agyeya was born Sachchidananda -- Phanishwarnath Renu, Raja Rao, Mulk Raj Anand and Josephine Miles to Prime Minister Jawaharlal …

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Review of Daniel Bosley’s Descent into Paradise — A Journalist’s Memoir of the Untold Maldives: Turbulent idyll
1 year, 1 month ago

Review of Daniel Bosley’s Descent into Paradise — A Journalist’s Memoir of the Untold Maldives: Turbulent idyll

The Hindu  

In the first few chapters of Descent into Paradise, it becomes evident that author Daniel Bosley is up to something. ‘Jarring contrast’ To illustrate how the country’s resorts were reaching new heights of luxury and comfort, while its correctional system was plumbing new depths of “dehumanising depravity”, he juxtaposes tourist reviews of soothing spa treatments and immaculate hospitality at Maldivian …

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Book Review | Aurangzeb's riotous commentary of our times
1 year, 2 months ago

Book Review | Aurangzeb's riotous commentary of our times

Deccan Chronicle  

If I were told I could use just one word to describe Charu Nivedita's novel Conversations with Aurangzeb: A Novel, the word I'd choose would be “irreverent”. Not the current zeitgeist of the country — when Chile suddenly decrees that drinking water is to be served free of charge at every eatery, it's Modi who's pulled that off, not two …

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Review: The Language of Trees by Katie Holten
1 year, 2 months ago

Review: The Language of Trees by Katie Holten

Hindustan Times  

Right in front of my house, stands a burflower tree at a site the ownership of which is disputed. People mark their lives with trees, taking photos of children near saplings, for example, though maybe more frequently people plant trees in memory of the deceased”, says artist-activist Katie Holten in her book The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature …

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Book Review: Manoj Rupda’s ‘I Named My Sister Silence’ provides sharp insights into the ground realities of Adivasi life
1 year, 2 months ago

Book Review: Manoj Rupda’s ‘I Named My Sister Silence’ provides sharp insights into the ground realities of Adivasi life

The Hindu  

Published : Oct 19, 2023 11:00 IST - 5 MINS READ Manoj Rupda’s 2018 Hindi novella, Kaale Adhyay, translated into English by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar under the title I Named My Sister Silence, is in the JCB Prize long-list. I Named My Sister Silence By Manoj Rupda, translated by Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar Eka Pages: 180 Price: Rs.499 We are introduced …

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