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Book review: The Mine

Where the book scores is in the clever twists and turns the story takes and the way disjointed pieces come together.
Section: Lifestyle  | Sunday, March 4, 2012 11:30 IST

Pereira’s Bakery portrays lives bulldozed by ‘development’

Pereira has fought valiant battles, marched to the roar of guns and bombs, but finds himself powerless before the might of ‘developers’.
Section: Mumbai  | Saturday, January 21, 2012 8:00 IST

Book review: A daughter from the past

The scandal and the secret might be the leitmotiv of the book but that’s not all there is to Jaishree Misra’s novel.
Section: Lifestyle  | Sunday, October 23, 2011 8:00 IST

On the road: Three days, three states

Alpana Chowdhury hits the highway, travelling through Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan.
Section: Lifestyle  | Sunday, October 2, 2011 8:00 IST

Book review: Lokpal: Facts And Arguments

There are many printer’s devils, grammatical errors and disjointed sentences which hamper the flow of reading.
Section: Lifestyle  | Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:00 IST

Book review: Miss Timmins' School for Girls

Nayana Currimbhoy’s murder mystery is set in the rock ‘n’ roll, drug-snorting, free lovemaking 1970s, in Panchgani.
Section: Lifestyle  | Sunday, August 14, 2011 14:30 IST

Book review: The Woman Who Thought She Was A Planet And Other Stories

The plots are often disjointed, and the ends abrupt and anti-climatic.
Section: Lifestyle  | Sunday, July 31, 2011 8:00 IST

Mafia Queens Of Mumbai is peppered with titillating details

From the choice of the women they have portrayed, to the racy style of writing, everything is calculated to make the book a page-turner.
Section: Lifestyle  | Sunday, June 5, 2011 1:55 IST

Book review: A tale of relationships told through murder

The novel’s strength lies in Wright’s empathy with the dilemma of an everyday woman, a wife who has been taken for granted by both her husbands.
Section: Lifestyle  | Sunday, May 22, 2011 3:00 IST

Realism of the sordid kind

The protagonist picks up a filthy drug-addict from the road and sleeps with his sore-ridden body, hoping to write a piece titled, ‘Help a heroin addict, save a dog’.
Section: Lifestyle  | Sunday, October 24, 2010 2:50 IST
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