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“Is a River Alive?” by Robert Macfarlane

This magnificent book arrived in the post today. I am going to read it asap. Meanwhile, I figured I should post the book blurb. It
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“Mother Mary Comes to Me” by Arundhati Roy

02 06 , 2025 No Comments

Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the person and the writer
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“Our Future is Biotech” by Andrew Craig

30 05 , 2025 No Comments

Welcome to the biotech revolution In the last century, technology has transformed the human experience across the world. This has been super-charged by the arrival
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“Waste Wars” by Alexander Clapp

30 05 , 2025 No Comments

Dumps and landfills around the world are overflowing. The millions of tonnes of garbage generated every day have given rise to waste wars, cons and
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“Things in Nature Merely Grow” by Yiyun Li

29 05 , 2025 No Comments

No parent should ever have to outlive their children. Unfortunately, Yiyun Li and her husband, lost both their sons. Vincent in 2017, at sixteen, and
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“India’s Techade: Digital Revolution and Change in the World’s Largest Democracy” by Nalin Mehta

29 05 , 2025 No Comments

This is a small book about big disruptions.Over two decades, and across two different political regimes, the world’s largest democracy combined the rise of cheap
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“My Friends” by Hisham Matar

28 05 , 2025 No Comments

Recording every episode of TOI Bookmark is an honour and a privilege. I get to speak with incredible writers and publishing professionals around the world.
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“Indian Literary Historiography” (Ed.) Harish Trivedi / TOI Bookmark

27 05 , 2025 No Comments

. It is always a pleasure to converse with academic and bilingual writer, Prof. Harish Trivedi . Recording this episode of #TOIBookmark took us into
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” A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial” by Viet Thanh Nguyen

26 05 , 2025 No Comments

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel The Sympathizer won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was turned into an HBO limited series. The recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim
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Inaugural Archer-Amish literary awards worth $25,000