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Green Wars by Bahar Dutt – Book Review
Bahar Dutt - an animal lover and an environmental journalist in the book Green Wars talks about her various expeditions across India. And a...
Travelling In, Travelling Out Ed by Namita Gokhale
Travel can mean so many things to so many people. It essentially means getting out of your surroundings - internal or external. Stepping into...
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....
Sahir Ludhianvi – The People’s Poet by Akshay Manwani
I connect to Sahir Ludhianvi for more than one reason. I knew he had penned some of my favorite film songs from the golden...
Raja Ravi Varma by Ranjit Desai – Vikrant Pande
Raja Ravi Varma, a king, a painter, and usually called a Prince among the painters and a Painter among the kings. All I knew...
50 Writers, 50 Books by Pradeep Sabestian, Chandra Siddan
Pradeep Sabestian is championing the cause of books on books in India. And thank God for that. His earlier book The Groaning Shelf was...
Those Pricey Thakur Girls by Anuja Chauhan
A few years back I had read her ‘The Zoya Factor’, and I kind of liked the quirky story. That blended all the happening...
Garbage Beat by Richa Lakhera – Book Review
The book Garbage Beat reminded me of another book Between the Headlines. Both the books are written on exactly the same lines by the...
Innovation: Bucket from Used Tyres
I was in Jhabua, MP to attend a tribal festival and at that fair I saw various small innovations, or rather ways of using...
Highway 39 by Sudeep Chakravarti
A journalist takes Highway 39 that runs from Assam to Manipur via Nagaland. A region that is like a black hole to most of...
