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Book review: A Promised Land by Barack Obama

Barack Obama`s A PROMISED LAND is a terrific read, all 700 pages of the text, with some terrific photographs tucked away at the end of the tome. The point is, the 44th President of the United States is one heck of a writer. Written in a very reader-friendly style, the prose practically soaring when he…

Book review: This Land Is Our Land by Suketu Mehta

Meanwhile, migrants elsewhere….. Suketu Mehta`s THIS LAND IS OUR LAND is the intelligent combination of the personal, where Mehta talks of many members of his clan migrating to the US, and the professional, where he traces the troubled route of people braving some almost insurmountable odds to make a happy place for themselves in a…

A quick look at some good books

A quick look at some good books Another excellent read, THE DIG/Keeladi and the Politics of India`s Past by Sowmiya Ashok. Hachette India.The author takes up the topic of Keeladi`s archaeological finds since its discovery in 2014, juxtaposes it against Harappan/IVC finds, mixes in a good dose of humour, and delivers info that informs, and…