By Radhika Bhirani, New Delhi : Between exploring the complex labyrinth of India’s criminal underbelly and narrating it to curious readers through his gritty books on dons and mafia queens, there’s a lot that writer S. Hussain Zaidi still ends ...
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Feed SubscriptionMaharana Pratap: A warrior who withstood the might of Mughal empire at its peak (Book Review)
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, Book: Maharana Pratap – The Invincible Warrior; Author: Rima Hooja; Publisher: Juggernaut Books; Pages: 204; Price: Rs. 499 Who really won the battle of Haldighati? Did Maharana Pratap’s army and his Bhil tribals outnumber Akbar’s Imperial army? ...
Read More »An ‘epic’ on Indian soldiers in WWI (Book Review)
By C. Uday Bhaskar, Book: The Indian Empire At War; Author: George Morton-Jack; Publisher: Little, Brown; Pages: 582; Price Rs 699 World War I was a long and brutal military confrontation between the major powers of the early 20th century, ...
Read More »Demonetisation paralysed businesses, says ex-banker Meera Sanyal
New Delhi : Former banker Meera H. Sanyal in her book launched on second anniversary of the move to nullify high denomination currency, says demonetisation “paralysed businesses” in the country. Sanyal, a former CEO and Chairperson of Royal Bank of ...
Read More »‘Scorpion’, not ‘Shiva lingam’, is Tharoor’s subject (Book Review)
By Saket Suman, Book: The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi and his India; Author: Shashi Tharoor; Publisher: Aleph Book Company; Pages: 504; Price: Rs 799 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) revels in being in the public eye, and reaps the ...
Read More »Nur Jahan: The widow who became the Empress of India (Book Review)
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, Book: Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan; Author: Ruby Lal; Publisher: Penguin-Viking; Pages: 308; Price: Rs 599 For certain generations of Indians, the cinematic fable of Anarkali is perhaps the most celebrated, but cliched, introduction to ...
Read More »Full Disclosure: Sex, threats and Donald Trump (Book Review)
By Saket Suman, Book: Full Disclosure; Author: Stormy Daniels; Publisher: St. Martins Press/Pan Macmillan/Pages: 270; Price: Rs 699 In a tell-all memoir that justifies its title “Full Disclosure”, porn star Stormy Daniels makes stunning claims about US President Donald Trump, ...
Read More »India and EU: The devil lies in the (trade) deal (Book Review)
By Tarun Basu, Title: India and EU: An Insider’s View; Author: Bhaswati Mukherjee; Publisher: ICWA/Vij Books; Pages: 358; Price: Rs 746 About a decade ago, the European Commission, troubled perhaps by the not-so-positive perception it has in India, decided to ...
Read More »Shahryar – the person and the poetry (Book Review)
By Mohammed Shafeeq, Book: Shahryar: A Life in Poetry; Author: Rakhshanda Jalil; Publisher: HarperCollins; Price: Rs 599; Pages: 226 Shahryar (1936-2012) was arguably one of the best Urdu poets in the post-Independence era. Emerging as a poet in the 1960s, ...
Read More »A political theorist’s act of resistance against his Partition ghost (Book Review)
By Saket Suman, Book: Looking for the Nation; Author: Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee; Publisher: Speaking Tiger; Pages: 202; Price: Rs 350 Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee, who earned his doctorate in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University and has been published widely in ...
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