Category: Books
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Shashi Tharoor’s ‘Why I Am A Hindu’ to be made as web series
New Delhi : Politician and author Shashi Tharoor’s book “Why I Am A Hindu” will be made into a web series with National Award-winning producer Sheetal Talwar as showrunner. The Congress MP will also narrate it. Taking head-on the current misinterpretation and misappropriation of Hinduism, Tharoor’s book is about the history of Hinduism and its…
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Chetan Bhagat reveals cover, ‘movie-style promo’ of new Hindu-Muslim ‘unlove story’
New Delhi : Best-selling author Chetan Bhagat has revealed the cover and a “movie-style promo” of his new book “The Girl in Room 105” — “a funny kind of thriller” about a Kashmiri Muslim girl and a Hindu boy — in a Facebook live on his fanpage on Monday. The book, published by Westland, will…
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First victim of terrorists’ plan is the religion they claim to follow (Book Review)
By Sheikh Qayoom, Book: Aryabhata Clan; Author: Sudipto Das; Publisher: Niyogi Books; Price: Rs 595; Pages: 476 Spread across four parts, the narrative of Sudipto Das’ second book, “Aryabhata Clan”, starts like a typical crime thriller with the kidnapping of the protagonist, Kubha. The book provides evidence that tackling sensitive and complicated topic like “Islamic…
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India’s unequal society will have damaging implications for its development: Author
By Saket Suman, New Delhi : A new book, “The Billionaire Raj”, paints a revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class and places it against the backdrop of the “radically unequal society” that is found in the country. It’s author, James Crabtree, who spent five years in Mumbai as bureau chief for…
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About love wrapped in red-tape (Book Review)
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, Book: Like a Bird on the Wire; Author: Chhavi Bhardwaj; Publisher: Amaryllis; Pages: 327; Price: Rs. 399 If 1983 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Upamanyu Chatterjee’s “English, August” gave readers a slick English-speaking young bureaucrat, floundering and trying to make sense of the classic city-village conflict, Chhavi Bhardwaj, a 2008 batch…
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An engaging saga of the Durrani daughters (Book Review)
By Mohammed Shafeeq, Book: The Begums of Peshawar; Author: Najma Yusufi; Publisher: Hachette India; Price: Rs 399; Pages: 306 This book, the debut novel by Najma Yusufi, a filmmaker and lecturer, is her tribute to her ancestors — the Afghan Durranis settled in Peshawar. A descendant of the Durranis on her mother’s side, she tells…
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‘National security also about governance, don’t politicise actions of the armed forces’ (Book Review)
By Vishnu Makhijani, Book: How India Manages Its National Security; Author: Arvind Gupta; Publisher: Penguin/Viking; Pages: 410; Price: Rs 599 National security is not just about the military, it also concerns governance and the tendency to politicise the actions of the armed forces should be “eschewed at all costs”, says Arvind Gupta, a former Deputy…
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Rosy picture of a raging fire (Book Review)
By Saket Suman, Book: The RSS – A View to the Inside; Authors: Walter K. Andersen and Shridhar D. Damle; Publisher: Penguin; Pages: 405; Price: Rs 699 In a book released this week, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has been projected as “the most influential cultural organisation in India today”. The implications of the Sangh’s…
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The Book ‘Two Sides of A Coin’ is a narrative by an Army Officer
Quignog, an imprint of Pirates has come up with a fictitious book ‘Two Sides of A Coin’ that delves deep into the conscience of two individuals, the first being an army officer and other being a militant. Their dreams rest on their perceived realities of life. The author has been innovatively daring in bringing to the fore…
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One woman’s incredible story of defiance (Book Review)
By Saket Suman, Book: The Wind In My Hair; Author: Masih Alinejad; Publisher: Little Brown UK/Hachette India; Price: Rs 699; Pages: 394 A courageous woman, driven by nothing but her insistence on living life the way she wanted to, untied her hair and let the beautiful curls flow over her shoulder. And all hell broke…