book review

Express News Service The overwhelming centrality of the Bhagavat Gita has long eclipsed other Gitas. This beautifully produced volume foregrounds distillates of some of those others, hitting the right note between the…

Express News Service Ah, the worlds that live beyond the worlds we know; Radhika Iyengar’s Fire on the Ganges takes us into one such. It leads us into the world of the Doms, which could well be a part of Dante’s first…

Express News Service Who can forget the character of Gabbar Singh, essayed by Amjad Khan in Sholay? The tobacco-chewing, bullet-belt-wearing dacoit, who terrorized the fictional village of Ramgarh, became the poster…

Express News Service What exactly is the Kashmir problem? Did it start in 1931 or in October 1947? Why did the kingdom of Kashmir with a Muslim majority population refuse accession to either India or Pakistan, and…

Express News Service Travel writer Zac O’Yeah has traversed the length and breadth of India, stopping for double breakfasts, a handful of lunches, bottles of stuff, which ranges from grog to branded liquor at many a…

By Associated Press LaToya Watkins has surpassed the high bar set by her beautifully crushing debut novel, “Perish,” with a collection of short stories titled “Holler, Child.” Heavily rooted in west Texas where the…

Express News Service Harini Nagendra’s Murder Under a Red Moon picks up from where the first book in her Bangalore Detectives Club series left off. Fresh off a successful case, Kaveri, the 19-year-old detective of a…

Express News Service Long-form reporting has a beauty that allows readers to fully immerse themselves in the stories it unfolds. In her new book, Marginlands, Arati Kumar-Rao embarks on a journalistic voyage, delving…

Express News Service What is caste? The answer is complex, and borrowing a Portuguese word casta to understand India’s multi-layered social fabric doesn’t always help. For a start, contrary to Krishna’s quote in…

Express News Service Sonora Jha’s book has a definitive personality. It is someone standing in the shadows of an ancient arch looking out at a decidedly un-ancient campus square with a sardonic half-smile on their…