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In the path of a pioneer (03 August 12:00) |
| Troyanov’s reconstruction of the life of Burton is more an investigation of the curious spirit that was idealised but perhaps never fully accepted by contemporary society. |
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Final frontier (03 August 12:00) |
| Randy Pausch’s last lecture taught many to seize the day and live life to its fullest. |
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From across the edge (03 August 12:00) |
| The English in these translated stories is supple and responsive to the many registers of Oriya. |
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Unflinching reality (03 August 12:00) |
| Pamela Manasi’s translation is both aesthetic and subtle. |
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Idiom of Tamil pulp (03 August 12:00) |
| Showcasing a literature not found in bookstores or libraries. |
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Keeping faith with the mother tongue (03 August 12:00) |
| How important are regional languages in the rapidly transforming global village?JYOTI NAIR BELLIAPPA |
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Exquisite images (03 August 12:00) |
| A celebration of India, land and people. |
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Postcolonial encounters (03 August 12:00) |
| Neither East Nor West looks at the ways in which colonial imperialism continues to function today through new forms of globalisation. |
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Legendary reformer (03 August 12:00) |
| A work that celebrates the life of the multi-faceted Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. |
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Give it a miss (03 August 12:00) |
| Avoid this one like the plague. |
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Delhi lite (03 August 12:00) |
| A quick look at the Capital’s hoary past. |
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The foundry of the word (03 August 12:00) |
| A collection that will age gracefully. |
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The making of an actor (03 August 12:00) |
| A fascinating sketch of Sivaji Ganesan’s rise in Tamil films and his varying fortunes later in politics. |
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No longer news (03 August 12:00) |
| Will bagging the Best of the Booker help Rushdie exorcise the ghost of Satanic Verses? |
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Inspiring a masterpiece (03 August 12:00) |
| Breakfast at Tiffany’s conjures up an image of Audrey Hepburn. But the original was a novella by Truman Capote. |
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The Bookman (03 August 12:00) |
| With his books on the history of books, Nicholas Basbanes has become the foremost chronicler of bibliomania. |
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The fabric of words (03 August 12:00) |
| Next time you go shopping, think of the language you employ to buy your clothes. |
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Exponent of eternal change (03 August 12:00) |
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In the shadow (03 August 12:00) |
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Confronting realities (06 July 12:00) |
| Freedom’s Ransom traces the orbits of two distant worlds, India and Bharat, as they weave their different ways and finally overlap. |
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New directions (06 July 12:00) |
| Netherland shows one possible way forward for the novel: from the post-colonial cul de sac to a post-national open-endedness. |
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Of the dark and weird (06 July 12:00) |
| Sinister images of brutality juxtaposed with scenes of everyday life and situations makes for a disturbing book. |
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A good read (06 July 12:00) |
| A story of three friends and the impact of politics and religion on their lives. |
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Of binary lives (06 July 12:00) |
| Constantly draining religious icons of their religiosity, Patil turns tradition on its head with wit. |
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City narrative (06 July 12:00) |
| Weak in characterisation and plot, Bioscope Man belongs to a tradition of fiction that is obsessed with social and cultural ambience. |
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Artists of our misery (06 July 12:00) |
| Something... is a racy compendium of little tales, characters, viewpoints and ideologies. |
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The path to freedom (06 July 12:00) |
| The story of one woman’s journey from a ‘flower house’ to finding her own space as a painter, with the vast canvas of modern Chinese history as the background... |
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Games with time (06 July 12:00) |
| Ghosts is a novel about writing a story, the challenges that it brings. |
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The writer as reader (06 July 12:00) |
| An elegantly produced book of essays that evokes a book-haunted life. |
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Man, the migrant (06 July 12:00) |
| The book puts in perspective the whole gamut of the immigrant experience. |
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India in unflattering light (06 July 12:00) |
| Despite its stark vision and lack of subtlety, White Tiger makes an impact because of its brutal candour. |
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Breathless monologue (06 July 12:00) |
| Opinions, premised on the experience of immediate family and friends, delivered in a relentlessly chatty, gossip-column style. |
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Preview (06 July 12:00) |
| The Lions of India, edited by Divya Bhanu Singh, Black Kite, price not stated. This book celebrates an animal whose magnificent beauty has been the cause of its tragic destiny... Ironically... |
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A certain inevitability (06 July 12:00) |
| Sepia Leaves is the chronicle of a dysfunctional home, written from a child’s perspective. |
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Portrait of a crusader (06 July 12:00) |
| A biography of Minoo Rustom Masani, written with admiration by a close associate. |
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Heart of a metro (06 July 12:00) |
| Soundly researched and well-written, this is a must-read for anyone interested in Bombay’s history. |
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Chekhov’s sad comedies (06 July 12:00) |
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Cairo from a café (06 July 12:00) |
| A brief experience of Mahfouz country, though the café he used to frequent is no more, having given way to change… |
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The quest for answers (01 June 12:00) |
| A tale of two outsiders swimming against the current. |
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Magic of numbers (01 June 12:00) |
| An exploration of the greatest discoveries of Math that also looks at larger questions of faith, reason, freedom and choice. |
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D and company (01 June 12:00) |
| Paanchali’s part-powerful, part-pallid take on her life and times makes for an easy-read epic. |
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Essaying a cityscape (01 June 12:00) |
| Mamu was the first novel to have an urban setting in Oriya literature. |
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On violence and violation (01 June 12:00) |
| This book explores the various kinds of systemic violence that women face. |
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Evocative lyrics (01 June 12:00) |
| Gulzar at his best, conveying with simple elegance profound thoughts as only he can. ZIYA US SALAM |
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A balanced reading (01 June 12:00) |
| This is a meticulous chronicling of a historical period. |
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Modern disconnect (01 June 12:00) |
| Rhinoceros (and Other Plays), Penguin Classics, Eugène Ionesco, first published 1959, Special Indian Price, £7.75 “It’s not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it’s manki... |
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Literary ephemera (01 June 12:00) |
| Fun toys are no more targeted at just philistines and jocks. The Internet is a treasure trove for book geeks too. |
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Hail Mary, pillow case (01 June 12:00) |
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Wayward wanderers (01 June 12:00) |
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Sense and sensitivity (01 June 12:00) |
| M.T. Vasudevan Nair, the man who is equally at ease with both the written and the visual medium, says he is going to stick to writing because of the freedom it affords these days. |
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