Book Review
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Haruki Murakami’s new book shows why we are in a love-hate relationship with his short stories
‘First Person Singular’ is far from Murakami’s best, but it is a welcome change in these sullen times of readers’ block and burnout.
Arunima Mazumdar
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Reading about the 15 wildlife species profiled in this book might make us care for their future
Neha Sinha’s ‘Wild and Wildful’ travels across India to show us the country’s animals and birds.
Harini Nagendra
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Urvashi Bahuguna’s memoir of mental illness shares and bares her affliction, and talks of hope
The essays in ‘No Straight Thing Was Ever Made’ draw from her earlier book of poems, but now the illness follows the author everywhere.
Sana Goyal
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Why is India learning details of vaccination strategy from Adar Poonawalla and not the Centre?
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India’s Covid-19 crisis is a product of the paranoid governance that has marked the past seven years
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Pakistani YouTubers to release a Pashto version of blockbuster Turkish show ‘Dirilis: Ertugrul’
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‘The Heart Asks Pleasure First’: This debut tries to do too many things for a focused novel
Karuna Ezara Parikh’s novel is a story of star-crossed lovers, but it refuses to be just that.
Sahana Hegde
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Anuja Chauhan’s new novel may be a whodunnit, but its people are its pleasure, as usual
In ‘Club You To Death’, the popular writer with a perfect ear for conversation uses crime as a vehicle to portray the ‘beautiful people’ of Delhi society.
Trisha Gupta
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This book visits the sites of India’s civilisations to reimagine 4,000 years of history
Namit Arora combines the evidence gleaned from travel and research to draw informed conclusions in ‘Indians: A Brief History of a Civilisation’.
Rajmohan Gandhi
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Watch: Armed theft doesn’t go as planned after man threatened at gunpoint slams robber to the ground
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Watch: Covid vaccine thief apologises, returns over 1,700 stolen doses
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‘Two slaps’: Union Minister of State Prahlad Singh Patel to man asking for oxygen amidst shortage
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Covid-19 crisis: Death, despair rages across India, healthcare facilities fail to cater to patients
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‘Remdesivir is no Ram baan’: Medanta Hospital chairman says the drug isn’t for all Covid-19 patients
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Ranjit Hoskote’s new book ‘Hunchprose’ offers a nourishing needlework of finely wrought poetry
Myth, fable, nature, history, metaphysics, meditation, ventriloquism – Hoskote has plucked every string in the lyre with love.
Sarabjeet Garcha
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Meena Kandasamy’s documentary on Sri Lanka’s women Tamil warriors is now her latest book
With ‘The Orders Were To Rape You’, the writer takes the trauma of the participants towards posterity.
Niyati Bhat
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‘The Curse’: Salma’s short stories talk of women being suffocated in their domestic spaces
This curated collection of short fiction in translation goes into ghosts of lives past and future.
Yashasvi Arunkumar
The Reel
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‘Aashiqui’ to ‘Raaz’: The best of Nadeem-Shravan’s dholak pop
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‘Kathmandu Connection’ review: The cops-and-gangsters formula gets a welcome twist
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‘Another Round’ review: Mads Mikkelsen dazzles as a teacher who tries to drink away a midlife crisis
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‘The Father’ movie review: Anthony Hopkins is brilliant in forgetting and holding on
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‘Here Today’ trailer: Tiffany Haddish and Billy Crystal in comedy about an unlikely friendship
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Anubha Yadav’s debut novel lays bare middle-class Indian masculinity, especially for men who deny it
‘The Anger of Saintly Men’ is a ruthless novel about the male perspective written by a woman.
Isa Ayidh
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Greed versus balance: Where Amitav Ghosh’s re-creation of Sundarban legends in verse takes us
In ‘Jungle nama’, Ghosh locates an old cautionary tale in a modern context of humans taking more than they need to from nature.
Shuktara Lal
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The peacock dances and then sheds its feathers. This novel links the plumage to publishing
Siddharth Chowdhury’s new novel, ‘The Time of the Peacock’, travels with writers and publishers.
Isa Ayidh
The Field
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Golf: Aditi Ashok makes the cut for sixth successive time in 2021 on LPGA tour
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IPL 2021: Devdutt Padikkal on his first century, partnership with Kohli and recovery from Covid-19
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IPL 2021: Devdutt Padikkal is one to look forward to in the future, says RCB captain Virat Kohli
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Stuttgart Open: Pliskova sets up quarter-final against Barty, Halep cruises into last eight
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Premier League: Vardy ends goal drought as Leicester boost top-four hopes with West Brom win