Figuring Things Out

At first glance Sanjoy Hazarika's book may seem rather dated. It gives a snapshot of the North Eastern states up to the early 1990s.  Mu...

  This is a collection of short-stories Murakami published in 2020. The title comes from the last story in the collection but the one I like...

  My first book for 2023 is a book Haruki Murakami wrote a few years ago - "Killing Commendatore" ( ( Japanese :  騎士団長殺し ,  Hepbur...

Remember this post about 'The Most Translated Books of the World' ?  Well, a few days ago, I decided to pick one of the few European...

 Indians have been suckers for more than six decades. This was my main takeaway from Vijay Gokhale's recent book, "The Long Game - ...

 I got my first introduction to the concept of Slavery a few decades ago,  from Alex Haley's book, "Roots" .  This book not on...

  Kabul has been on my mind all day today. It started with a trickle, with a photos-app reminding me that exactly one year ago, I had taken ...

Thousands of Indian soldiers are now perched on the freezing ridges of Ladakh. With China continuing with its expansionist "salami-slic...

This one is was long overdue. I have been meaning to put down my thoughts about this much-recommended book for a few weeks now. "W...

This is not a book I would ever pick on an impulse. The cover itself  is quite intimidating - a confusing, colorful blob of tangled rib...

A hot summer evening in NCR Delhi, sitting on the terrace with a mug of hot coffee, a bowl of banana-chips, and a book: One Day in t...

It is interesing to view India through the eyes of Octavio Paz.  A few days back, a tweet got me searching for the book " In Ligh...

I was not too keen on picking another 500 page tome. Having just finished "The Gene", I was looking for something lighter, so...

Bharat Karnad launched his new book today: "Why India is not a Great Power (yet)" . I had been looking forward to this eve...

Why did Yugoslavia break-up?  According to a Croat "...we had lived in peace and harmony because every hundred meters we had a po...

Ashoka by Charles Allen. This is the sort of book that makes you wonder what on earth Indian historians have been up to since 1947. ...