book review

Doomed in Dubai tells the terrifying true story of a male model’s dreams of stardom turning into a living nightmare.

If you want a qandeel for Diwali any shopkeeper in the state is happy to help you with a selection. But what Qandeel Baloch wanted was to be a light unto herself.

If #LetLoveBe is the theme of the year, thanks to scrapping down of Section 377 last year, then journalist Manish Gaekwad’s literary debut Lean Days takes the cake

The author begins by saying that we have very strict rules about what must be done: (heterosexual) marriage and producing children, which are flourishing businesses.

Inarguably literature is a mirror of society, the hands which hold this mirror are those of socially conscious authors.

For many years I firmly believed that Number 8 if seen horizontally symbolises infinity (in mathematics and life) and is often associated with wealth and prosperity.

The Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of History of Religions at The University of Chicago, who has taught there since 1978, way before most of us were born, knows more than a thing or two about India and her culture.

Once famous as Kitty, the cutesy detective’s aide in teleserial ‘Karamchand’, this is actress-writer Susmita Mukherjee’s debut as a novelist.

India is cultural conundrum for Western world since centuries. After colonial rule it becomes more complex because western intellectuals tried to understand it from their own perspective.

When Hillary and Tenzing hugged each other at the top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953, it was a dream fulfilled — but, says Deborah Baker, the ‘Englishness’ of it was lost.