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Poetry holds a mirror to…the global pandemic and climate change Source link
Poetry holds a mirror to…the global pandemic and climate change Source link
The venerable novelist Salman Rushdie’s new essay collection, Languages of Truth, has big ambitions. As its subtitle suggests,...
The warp and weft of Partition history define the Sindhis—the diaspora and those in India Source link
A study of 1.5 million cases found that when judges are passing sentences on days following a loss...
India And Asian Geopolitics: Past And Present By Shivshankar Menon Penguin Random House India | Pages: 416 | Rs. 699...
After I finished Amazon Unbound, I glanced at the Amazon Echo cylinder on my kitchen counter, next to...
Rituparna Chatterjee puts together a cross-genre memoir where the tale of childhood abuse is transcreated through touches of magical realism...
There’s nobody Michael Lewis likes better than a hero who gives a defiant middle finger to the conventional...
How India Votes And What It Means By Pradeep Gupta Juggernaut | Pages; 192 | Rs. 499 While every India-Pakistan...
“Raise your hand if you think you’ve had a harder week than I’ve had.”It was February 14, 2019, in...
Antitrust: Taking on Monopoly Power from the Gilded Age to the Digital AgeAuthor: Amy KlobucharPublisher: Alfred A Knopf ...
Angrynomics By Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth Agenda Publishing, UK | Pages: 194 | Rs. 1,691 In this world that...
Stephen Hawking was, by a wide margin, the best-known figure from the world of science from the mid-1980s until...
Curator Alka Pande of the Visual Arts Gallery of the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, has written a book very...
What’s in a name? Apparently plenty for the members of the Sackler family, who plastered their surname on...
What fools we were,” King George V told his prime minister, Ramsay MacDonald, in 1930, looking back to...
Soumitra’s versatility went beyond acting. This book gives him his due as a poet, thespian and painter. Source link
It wasn’t an immaculate conception. After its first hazy origins some 65,000 years ago, the story of Indian languages has...
Over the last several years, citizens of the West have learned that they can no longer take democracy for...
Australian celebrity chef-restaurateur Sarah Todd is an Indophile, especially the food, culture and movies (Bhaag Milkha Bhaag is a personal...
Shyamala Harris raised her daughters to become proud Black Americans. Her remarkable life is the radiating point of key nodes...
The subtitle of Timothy Brennan’s new book, Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said, is somewhat misleading....
In his new book Badri Narayan says, ‘Much of the BJP’s popularity today has to do with the socio-cultural mindset...
This is a book that holds a country torn open inside its pages. Behind it are two pain points—the brutalisation...
It is as hard to understand a technological revolution while it is happening as to know what a...
Kabir’s mystical poetry enthrals newer generations. This simple, unpretentious translation, with helpful commentary, is a model publishing effort too. Source...
This book is an attempt to contextualise one’s personal experience with the hope that it does the same for the...
As an entree to Michael Moss’s excellent new book, try this experiment. Imagine or place two bowls in...
Amitav Ghosh versifies the oldest tale of the Sundarbans in a magnificently illustrated volume Source link
A few years ago YouTube recommended I watch a video with the word “carpocalypse” in its title. I...
An encyclopaedia of concepts, ideas and idioms through which we express our Indian experience Source link
Mark Bittman’s latest book arrives at a momentous time. In the opening weeks of his term, President Biden...
Audacious, provocative, and utterly persuasive, Stop Reading the News does what a vast majority may be secretly contemplating, but often...
First few pages in the book titled, ‘The Economics of Small Things’ are dedicated to capturing our attention with the...
First things first — much respect to Bill Gates for his membership in the select club of ultra-billionaires...
Hailed as the 'greatest literary show on Earth', the 14th edition of the Jaipur Literature Festival 2021, will...
Over the centuries, the idea of India has inspired multiple visions and manifold actions. Venerated as sacred geography, fought for...
Ramachandra Guha is a historian of unquestioned merit and renowned. As a fan, player, writer, scholar, environmentalist and administrator, Ramachandra...
In 2012, a gang of men set upon and horrifically raped a female student on a bus in...
When Kripal Singh (Chandrachur Singh) sees Inspector Vora (Kanwaljit Singh) at a Sikh shrine in Himachal Pradesh he...
India’s Constitution is being scrutinised, its fundamental principles challenged, like never before. These books represent the two dominant, opposing stands. ...
Five chapters into Made in China, Amelia Pang’s investigation of forced labour practices in China, her main subject...
Bhavna Vij-Aurora February 03, 2021 00:00 IST Storm And Lightning outlookindia.com 2021-02-05T13:28:59+05:30 The 1980s and the early...
What does an esoteric concept like Calvinist soteriology have to do with the rise of modern economics? Does...
A. Nathan January 28, 2021 00:00 IST Bellyful Of Low Thumps outlookindia.com 2021-01-30T13:08:42+05:30 Everyone who’s ever owned...
Autobiographies are fascinating because, for the most part, they tell the truth, not just about the lives of individuals...
We don’t talk much about land reform these days, but after reading Simon Winchester’s Land: How the Hunger...
Anjana Basu January 20, 2021 00:00 IST Karma, Akarma And Us outlookindia.com 2021-01-22T15:05:06+05:30 Bibek Debroy has translated...
It was not long after the federal Constitution was created in 1787 that many antislavery Northerners began labelling...
R.K. Vij January 13, 2021 00:00 IST Dangerous Daydreams outlookindia.com 2021-01-15T13:12:37+05:30 Ashutosh Bhardwaj lived in Chhattisgarh for...
Suresh Menon January 13, 2021 00:00 IST The All-Seeing Recorder outlookindia.com 2021-01-15T13:12:37+05:30 Mehta hated to be called...
When I first came to India, I asked one of the most erudite politicians in the Indian government...
Among the riot of species that have lived on Earth over the last four billion years, only we...
From its very origins in resistance to revolutionary movements in the late 18th century, conservatism has had two...