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Her voice amid lurking danger: Reflections on some feminist crime novels

It goes without saying that not all of the female crime novelists come out as feminists, and that some male writers can do feminist crime novels quite well.

The adventures of Wyndham and Surrender-not

A few years ago, most pleasingly as it has turned out, have come the historical crime novels situated in India

As reality becomes surreal...

The fear is not only about the virus but also how humans respond to the challenge

Biographies and bias

A biographer can never get it even half-right. I mean, the facts may well all be there. But the truth? Now that's a different thing altogether

A unique book discusses Krishna and Vrindavan in contemporary times

Hawley draws a contrast between Krishna in Vrindavan and Krishna in later years, for instance, at the Kurukshetra battlefield advising Arjuna on the ways of the world or even later in Dwaraka

Rural students spend more in books, uniform, stationery than urban: Survey

Among those who were enrolled, drop-out rate was as high as 10 per cent at primary level, 17.5 per cent at upper primary/middle, and 19.8 per cent at secondary level, the survey added.

The best of 2019 from a voracious and eclectic reader's bookshelf

Though the author of Hindutva, savarkar was "hardly a practicing Hindu in the religious sense"

Le Carre's moral compass

The perfect metaphor for the moral ambiguities that Le Carre explores is caught in Smiley's relationship with his wife, Lady Anne

Reading the CEOs

The Right also thinks so, which is why I despise intellectuals from both sides. They think smugness is the perfect substitute for wisdom and the State is the panacea for all ills

A rapid reader for 2019

It's been a fruitful year for scholars. A couple of works of history stand out

John le Carre's is an unremarkable novel about spies in the time of Brexit

This is not a novel of quality. This review is a call for the master

How racism infects science

Racism, and its handmaiden, "race science", have made a stunning comeback in the 21st century

Arundhati, Rushdie make it to BBC's 100 'Novels That Shaped Our World' list

The list has been collated by a panel of writers, curators and critics to select the 100 English language 'Novels That Shaped Our World'

A set of essays imagines a South Asia without jingoistic policy discourses

This book questions disciplinary boundaries that scholars are afraid to transgress even when they know that the impertinence would be rewarding

The case for book publishing monopolies

A monopoly is highly volume dependent and volumes need more variety, not less

The impending return of the book

Why an anti-digital wave like the anti-carbon one is around the corner

The popularity of rare and first edition books at Indian auction houses

Why Indian auctioneers are adding first and limited edition books to their sales categories

Nostalgia unlimited

What one encounters in this slim volume is rare for a first book - a mature style, a confident voice, none of the fumbles of a younger poet's first book

Bookish nostalgia

For booklovers, of course, Old Delhi was a treat, but also for those planning to pick up stationary at a discount

Children's books' start-up Bookosmia buys mythological stories app Mytha

Through the acquisition of Mytha, Bookosmia will add a library of over 40 mythological digital stories and two published books