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Essays

  • Will India ever be a great power? Twenty-four other questions are also answered in this book

    Will India ever be a great power? Twenty-four other questions are also answered in this book

    Patralekha Chatterjee
    · Jul 08, 2018 · 08:30 am
  • A new book brings together writings on ‘modern marriage’ but what does that actually mean?

    A new book brings together writings on ‘modern marriage’ but what does that actually mean?

    Apoorva Sripathi
    · Jun 30, 2018 · 05:30 pm
  • The warp of love meets the weft of identity in this anthology of essays about Love (not love)

    The warp of love meets the weft of identity in this anthology of essays about Love (not love)

    Devapriya Roy
    · Jun 16, 2018 · 07:00 am
  • A painstaking attempt to probe the behaviours of Indians ends as a tepid effort in this book

    A painstaking attempt to probe the behaviours of Indians ends as a tepid effort in this book

    Urmi Chanda-Vaz
    · Apr 21, 2018 · 12:30 pm
  • Zadie Smith’s new book proves that some novelists can be engaging essayists too

    Zadie Smith’s new book proves that some novelists can be engaging essayists too

    Somak Mukherjee
    · Mar 22, 2018 · 08:30 am
  • Were the Obama years good for black people in America? An essayist asks the question in his new book

    Were the Obama years good for black people in America? An essayist asks the question in his new book

    Anu Kumar
    · Dec 04, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • Ruskin Bond is 83 today. He reveals where he found the novels he wrote

    Ruskin Bond is 83 today. He reveals where he found the novels he wrote

    Ruskin Bond
    · May 19, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • Love Neil Gaiman the novelist? So do we, but did he really have to write these childish essays?

    Love Neil Gaiman the novelist? So do we, but did he really have to write these childish essays?

    Ipsita Chakravarty
    · Aug 24, 2016 · 08:30 am
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