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INTERROGATION, CONFESSION AND TRUTH

‘So, we meet again,’ Mihir says cheerily, ‘What have you been up to, these days? What’s the next city you’re looking to bomb?’ Mihir has...

‘Death Script’: A complete view of the Naxal insurgency in India

Through the prism of the Maoist insurgency, the author meditates on the larger questions of violence and betrayal, sin and redemption, and what it means to live through and write about such experiences.

Vigyan Yoga launches ‘Decoding the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali’

Co-authored by Acharya Kaushal Kumar, a globally acclaimed voice on yoga, and industrialist Jai Singhania, the book, written in a free-flowing style, is an...

Father’s Day gift guide for book-lover dads

Picking out a gift for your dad, especially on Father’s Day, can be slightly tricky. All these years, you’ve showered him with essentials like mobiles, grooming...
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The music of timeless misery

Tarun J. Tejpal’s sprawling new novel about crime and punishment, men’s laws and god’s laws, inside and outside of the iron bars, is a...

‘The Living Mountain’ is a beautifully told story within the structure of a fable

The book is filled with amazing black ink illustrations done by Devangana Dash in between the pages, and is a story of ‘Mahaparbat’, The Living Mountain, and indigenous valley dwellers who live near the mountain. Disaster unfolds when humans assault the mountain for commercial purposes.

Unravelling surreal yet relatable world of ‘Loveflakes’

‘You are the smudge on my soul. You are my guilty pleasure.’ writes Vibha Malhotra in her debut collection of prose poetry, aptly called ‘Loveflakes’. A...

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