Istanbul Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
Everyone who has been to Istanbul has been fascinated by the city. I am yet to visit the city. So I was keen to...
SuperFreakonomics by Steven D Levitt & Stephen J Dubner
A sequel to a highly successful book comes with the assurance of sales and burden of expectations. The formula has worked in the past....
Letters from a Young Poet – Rabindranath Tagore, Tr By Rosinka Chaudhuri
I am sad that I finished reading this book Letters from a Young Poet: 1887-1895 - Rabindranath Tagore. I wandered through the rivers of...
The Yogic Manager by Avinash B. Sharma
I am losing count of the books that try to bring the Vedic knowledge or ancient Indian wisdom to modern management. Most of these...
The Sea of Innocence by Kishwar Desai
I picked up this book The Sea of Innocence to read at a leisurely pace. But ended up reading in 2 straight sittings in...
I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
When you read the memoirs of a person about whom a strong opinion already exists, there are a few things that happen. Like it...
The Case for India by Will Durant – Book Review
Written in 1930, at the peak of Indian freedom struggle, by a visiting American historian - this is book The Case for India, that...
Cat out of Hell by Lynne Truss – Book Review
Ages ago I had read Lynne Truss’s Eats, Shoots & Leaves - a zero-tolerance approach to punctuation. And I still remember reading that. So...
Mumbai’s Dabbawalla by Shobha Bondre
Dabbawallahs of metropolis Mumbai suddenly gained fame when foreign media put them in the spotlight. Forbes magazine was the first one to give them...
The Wandering Falcon by Jamil Ahmad
Storytelling is an art that is not very common. This book The Wandering Falcon is like a lesson in storytelling. How to open small...
