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Saturday, November 30, 2024

An Intermedial Retrospective-review of “Indian Renaissance: The Modi Decade”

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  Indian Rennaissance: The Modi Decade. Edited by Aishwarya Pandit B etween 1989 and 1998 India saw five General Elections and six Prime Min...
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

The Hanuman Chalisa, translated by Vikram Seth

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The Hanuman Chalisa: Tr. Vikram Seth Ego gratification or a labour of love? When Vikram Seth, praised as the ‘best writer of his generation’...
Saturday, July 6, 2024

Life, Death, and the Ashtavakra Gita, Bibek Debroy and Hindol Sengupta

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Life, Death, and the Ashtavakra Gita, Bibek Debroy and Hindol Sengupta L ife, Death and the Ashtavakra Gita” is a combination of a translati...
Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Strange Obsession, Shobha De

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Strange Obsession, by Shobha De As strange confessions go, here is one - I hadn't read a single of Shobha De's books till recently....
Sunday, November 26, 2023

Review: Sacred Songs The Mahabharata's Many Gitas

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Sacred Songs: The Mahabharata's Many Gitas, by Bibek Debroy The Mahabharata, given its encyclopaedic length, unsurprisingly, contains ma...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Shiva Purana, Vol.1, tr. by Bibek Debroy

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Shiva Purana, Vol. 1, tr. by Bibek Debroy S hiva Purana, Vol, 1 is the first of a three-volume unabridged English translation of the Shiva...
Saturday, September 23, 2023

Soufflé, by Anand Ranganathan—Review

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Soufflé, by Anand Ranganathan A t under 200 pages, Anand Ranganathan’s fiction thriller-mystery novel is an ideal read on a Delhi-Mumbai or ...
Saturday, May 6, 2023

Spy Stories: Inside the Secret World of the RAW and the ISI, by Cathy Scott-Clark Adrian Levy - Review

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This is a fast-paced read, but which comes across more as a Pakistan ISI sponsored pamphlet.  The material is haphazardly put together. The ...