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Book Review | A Clear Recall of a "Many-Splendored life
22+ hour, 59+ min ago (408+ words) The book is not a look back at history scholarship in India. It is about the joys and passing sorrows of Thapar's life Most of the interviews/podcasts, reviews of historian Romila Thapar's autobiography show her to be an embattled…...
Book Review | Deathbed Vigil Still Leaves Key Questions Unasked
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (361+ words) George Saunders revisits themes of death, memory and redemption in a darkly comic afterlife tale, but its moral inquiry into guilt and forgiveness leaves deeper questions of power and responsibility largely unexplored. Deathbed vigil still leaves key questions unasked Varun…...
Final Goodbye to a Master Storyteller
1+ week, 3+ day ago (205+ words) Gangai Amaran, Sivakumar, Suriya, Radhikaa Sarathkumar, Nirosha, lyricist Vairamuthu, RV Uthayakumar and Seeman were among the earliest to arrive at the late director's residence. Rajinikanth joined the mourners later. The visitors paid floral tributes and spent time with the bereaved…...
Top Ten Books of the Week (June 4, 2026)
2+ week, 1+ day ago (199+ words) 1. Title: Just Being Author: Romila Thapar Publisher: Seagull Books 2. Title: The Bench, the Bar and the Bizarre ISBN: " 9789353523190 3. Title: The Lawful and the Awful: Quirky Tales from the World of Law Author: Tushar Mehta 4. Title: Strangers A Memoir of Marriage…...
Top Ten Books Of The Week (May 27, 2026)
2+ week, 5+ day ago (194+ words) 1. Title: Just Being Author: Romila Thapar Publisher: Seagull Books 2. Title: The Bench, the Bar and the Bizarre ISBN: " 9789353523190 3. Title: The Lawful and the Awful: Quirky Tales from the World of Law Author: Tushar Mehta 4. Title: The Constitution Is My Home…...
Top Ten Books Of The Week (May 13, 2026)
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (201+ words) 1. Title: Just Being Author: Romila Thapar Publisher: Seagull Books 2. Title: The Curious and the Classified Author: General Manoj Naravane 3. Title: An Accidental Lawyer Author: K K Venugopal Publisher: Penguin India 4. Title: The Infinity Machine Author: Sebastian Mallaby 5. Title: Shattered Lands…...
Top Ten Books Of The Week (May 6, 2026)
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (202+ words) 1. Title: The Curious and the Classified Author: General Manoj Naravane 2. Title: An Accidental Lawyer Author: K K Venugopal Publisher: Penguin India 3. Title: Mother Mary Comes to me Author: Arundhati Roy 4. Title: Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya: Beloved of God Author: Raziuddin Aquil…...
Disha Publications "Wisdom Series" to Introduce Indian Spiritual Thought to Young Readers
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (452+ words) The launch is part of a broader vision to reach 1 crore households across India with learning material that supports not only academic development but also the building of character, clarity, and purpose among students....
Book Review | Funny But Unnerving Portrait of Pakistan
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (310+ words) Within a few pages of the beginning, you find yourself smiling and the smile stays on your face almost throughout the book The humour in Pakistani writer Mohammed Hanif's latest novel, Rebel English Academy, is disarming Within a few pages…...
Fantasy Fixations
2+ mon, 3+ day ago (499+ words) When a celebrity becomes an unwitting third wheel in a real-life romantic partnership, the lines between fact and imagination blur dangerously to create "parasocial bonds" and there can be no winner...