 | 'The Sweetness of Water' and 'Moth' book reviews: A war has no victorsTwo recent debut novels are powerful family dramas about war. Though set in two diverse parts of the world, both have one overarching message—that war, ultimately, has no winners. |
 | The Blind Matriarch Book Review: Mighty MaterfamiliasA contemporary family saga explores urban relationships in the face of an upheaval caused by the pandemic. |
 | China Room Book Review: The consequences of certitudesA story of two people separated by half a century and the sense of alienation they face. |
 | 'Chasing the Light' book review: Chronicles of the real and reelOliver Stone’s memoir takes us through the tumultuous twists and turns of his life and career |
 | 'Valmiki's Women' Review: Anand Neelakantan's latest is a contrarian’s take on mythologyAnand Neelakantan tells Medha Dutta Yadav that Ramayana and Mahabharata will always be relevant. They delve deep into the human psyche. As long as humans exist, these epics would keep evolving. |
 | 'When The Wildflowers Bloom' Review: Warp and weft of emotionsThe prose is sprinkled with oodles of gentle advice and pearls of wisdom, such as the fact that life gives you only what you expect from it. |
 | 'Return of the Brahmin' book review: A political thriller in Ashokan timesThe Buddhist Emperor’s wily spymaster returns with his fierce loyalties to his sovereign to untangle the mayhem that has descended |
 | 'Wanderers, Kings. Merchants: The Story of India Through its Languages' book review: Our mother’s tongueWell-researched, topical and engaging, the book begins by exploring the origin of Sanskrit. |
 | Understanding Chinese diplomacy through Vijay Gokhale's 'The Long Game'Gokhale, who has spent nearly four decades in the Indian Foreign Service before retiring as foreign secretary in January 2020, is an expert on Chinese diplomacy. |
| 'The Spirit of Enquiry' book review: The proverbial inquisitorTM Krishna on his collection of over 50 essays—The Spirit of Enquiry— gives readers an insight into the way his ideas have changed and nuanced over a period of time |
 | 'Enter Stage Right' book review: View from the wingsAlkazi’s memoir takes us through generations of relatives from both the Alkazi and Padamsee sides of the family |
 | 'The Story Quilt Edited & Compiled' book review: A patchwork of talesThis collection of eight children’s stories includes translations from Assamese, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Punjabi and Sindhi. |
 | Syud Hossain's biography: A life less ordinaryAn entire section of the book is dedicated to tracing the genesis of Indians in America, profiling some of the prominent names who mass-migrated to the country in the 20th century. |
 | 'Whereabouts' book review: The solitary reaperThe latest from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri is the first novel that she has written in Italian and then self-translated into English. |
 | 'Civil Lines' book review: When family secrets unfoldA chance conversation in the house that inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables convinced her that houses carry the imprints of their owners' trauma. |
