By Vikas Datta, There are just a handful of statesmen who have greatly influenced the course of the 20th century — for good or bad. But can we categorise leaders on this moral standard — for the most evil may ...
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By Saket Suman, New Delhi : Keen observers of contemporary Indian literature would recall that a series of memoirs, which came to be known as “book bombs”, critical of the then Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, hit the stands ...
Read More »World War I’s forgotten violent aftermath and toxic legacy (Book Review)
By Vikas Datta, Title: The Vanquished – Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923; Author: Robert Gerwarth; Publisher: Penguin Random House UK; Pages: 416; Price: Rs 699 Not all wars end when the fighting does is a lesson ...
Read More »A dose of mythology, dark secrets and suspense
New Delhi : What happens when reality mingles with mythology? Well, here is a young protagonist who discovers himself trapped in the days of Mahabharata. Then a story of dark secrets, shocking revelations and a special bond between two women. ...
Read More »A call for jihad in an earthly paradise — and its consequences (Book Review)
By Vikas Datta, Title: A Ticket to Syria; Author: Shirish Thorat; Publisher: Bloomsbury India: Pages: 254; Price: Rs 399 Faith can move mountains. But when distorted and misplaced, it can demolish lives, families and much more. And this destructive tendency ...
Read More »India has survived as a single political entity because of democracy
By Meghnad Desai, (Noted public intellectual, professor of Economics and an active member of the British Labour Party since 1971, Meghnad Desais latest book “The Raisina Model” (Penguin/Rs 499/208 pages) offers a critical and frequently uncomfortable mediation on Indias contemporary ...
Read More »The Trump syndrome and its impact: A psychiatric probe (Book Review)
By Vikas Datta, Title: Twilight of American Sanity; Author: Allen Frances; Publisher: William Morrow/Harper Collins: Pages: 336; Price: Rs 799 There are some times you can despair of the human race, or at least significant portions of it. Especially the ...
Read More »‘1984 anti-Sikh genocide not spontaneous, government orchestrated’ (Book Review)
By Vishnu Makhijani, Book: 1984 – India’s Guilty Secret; Author Pav Singh; Publisher: Rupa; Pages: 268; Price: Rs 500 The 1984 anti-Sikh riots following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi that claimed the lives of an estimated 8,000 people ...
Read More »Enid Blyton’s adventures get even more mouth-watering (Book Review)
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, Book: Jolly Good Food; Author: Allegra McEvedy; Publisher: Hodder Children’s Books; Price: Rs. 799; Pages: 133 Enid Blyton knew her mysteries. She also knew her muffins and meringues. In “Jolly Good Food”, Allegra McEvedy — chef, author ...
Read More »Of surrogacy, life, relations and Partition
(IANS Books This Weekend) New Delhi : See how two women discover the best and the worst about India’s surrogacy industry; discover another meaning of life from the story of a woman who one day comes face-to-face with a treasure ...
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