By Vikas Datta, Title: History Repeating - Why Populists Rise and Governments Fall; Author: Sam Wilkin; Publisher: Profile Books/Hachette India; Pages: 288; Price: Rs 599 Take a prosperous country facing a recent economic crisis where there is suddenly an improbable...
By Vikas Datta, What makes a literary work a classic? The readers' opinion or a prominent literary figure's certification? Or could it be, as many literary critics suggest, the enduring relevance of its motifs and message, beyond the space and time it portrays? By...
Washington : In what is going to mark the debut of former US President Bill Clinton as a fiction writer, he has teamed up with James Patterson and their thriller, rich in "information that only a former Commander-in-Chief could know" will be released globally on...
By Mohammed Shafeeq, Title: Day and Dastan (Two novellas); Author: Intizar Husain; Translated by: Nishat Zaidi and Alok Bhalla; Publisher: Niyogi Books; Pages: 190; Price: Rs 395 "Din Aur Dastan" is one of the more famous works of Intizar Husain. Nearly six decades...
By Vikas Datta, Title: Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?; Author: Frans De Waal; Publisher: Granta Books; Pages: 352; Price: Rs 499 Pet lovers swear by the intelligence and empathy of their dogs, cats and other charges, many social media users spend...
By Saket Suman, Book: All The Lives We Never Lived; Author: Anuradha Roy; Publisher: Hachette; Price: Rs 599; Pages: 335 In a shattered world of lovelorn characters, Anuradha Roy's recent novel yearns for "all the lives" it "never lived", gently unfolding a narrative...
By Vikas Datta, Title: Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House; Author: Mark Felt (with John O'Connor); Publisher: Ebury Press; Pages: 368; Price: Rs 499 An American President is elected in a divisive election, in which a section of his supporters used...
By Saket Suman, Book: Reshaping Art; Author: T.M. Krishna; Publisher: Aleph; Pages: 116; Price: Rs 399 Of all analogies that T.M. Krishna makes -- freedom, abandon, beauty, embrace -- in aptly titled "Reshaping Art", catharsis comes across as the most convincing. What...
By Vikas Datta, Title: Pakistan under Siege: Extremism, Society, and the State; Author: Madiha Afzal; Publisher: Viking/Penguin Random House India; Pages: 208; Price: Rs 599 It is considered one of the world's most dangerous countries for being a hub of a particularly...
By Saket Suman, New Delhi : At a time when demonising the Mughal empire has become fashionable in India and a negative perception of their rule comes a new book "Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire", whose writer, Ira Mukhoty...