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The Mummy With No Name by Geronimo Stilton
I believe these Mummy With No Name are hugely popular series of children’s books whose authorship is credited to the key character Geronimo Stilton....
India – A Traveller’s Literary Companion Edited by Chandrahas Choudhury
13 stories from all 5 corners of India comprise this India – A Traveller’s Literary Companion, a well-edited anthology of stories that you give...
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
The Romantics is a story set in the 1980s, probably written in 1990s sometime. It takes you through the journey of a young student...
The Big Bookshelf by Sunil Sethi
In The Big Bookshelf, 30 famous authors talk about their life, their growing up, their craft and their books. Some of them talk about...
Information revolutions in the history of mankind
Historian Elin Whitney-Smith in her interview on Strategy and Business identifies 5 major information revolutions in the history of mankind and shows how the leaders...
Aankh ki Kirkiri aka Chokher Bali by Rabindranath Tagore
On Gurudev’s 150th anniversary that is being celebrated across the country, I thought of at least sitting and reading one of his works. I...
Yuganta The end of an Epoch by Irawati Karve
Yuganta was one book that every Mahabharat lover recommended to me. Written almost 50 years back, this book Yuganta was out of print for...
Love on the Rocks by Ismita Tandon Dhanker
Having read a couple of books from the Metro reads series by Penguin, I slot them under fast-paced reads. Which show a certain aspect...
Ancient Indian Costumes by Roshen Alkazi
Like the speaker in my textiles class at NMI said, clothes have the longest relationship with us. Our parents start making clothes for us...
Bismillah Khan – The Maestro from Benaras by Juhi Sinha
We all remember his Shehnai, and the most vivid memory is of the one that he played on the Independence Day. I am not...
