Books

Cover Photo credit: Penguin Random House REVIEWED BY MAHADEV DESAI In her engrossing personal and political memoir, written in lucid prose, Kamala Harris recounts her

New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) Penguin Random House India announced on Friday the forthcoming publication of Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author Jhumpa Lahiri’s marvelous new

BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE A monumental year, 2020 transformed lives, thoughts and so much more. While the unprecedented pandemic succeeded in restricting people’s physical movements, it

BY BAL K. GUPTA*  On January 30, 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi (India).  On that horrible day, I was 10 years old

BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE As I turned over the final page of Farzana Doctor’s fourth novel Seven, I was instantly reminded of Kintsugi, the Japanese art

BY VEENA RAO Author Farzana Doctor’s recently released novel, Seven is a sensitively told story of a woman who travels to India to research the

New York, Nov 13 (IANS) Former US president Barack Obama’s new book ‘A Promised Land’ lands a sharp left hook on Rahul Gandhi’s “nervous, uninformed quality”

BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE Destiny, as Vidya, a character in ‘Journey to a Stepwell’ notes, for women like her and Ma (her mom), “is simply a

BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE  “Not since Buddha has India so revered any man. Not since St. Francis of Assissi has any life known to history been