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TataLog By Harish Bhat – Book Review
TataLog a small storybook that tells you bedtime stories from the Tata Kingdom, a corporate estate that is as perfect as one can get and...
Maharani by Ruskin Bond – Book Review
What is it about Bond’s stories that keep you glued to his books? You know his characters, you know his setting and you know...
India Grows at Night by Gurcharan Das
Gurcharan Das can be seen as the chronicler of current times from a socio-economic-political standpoint. He has been documenting the changing times in India...
Conversations with Mani Ratnam by Baradwaj Rangan
Acclaimed filmmaker Mani Ratnam’s story has to be worth listening to and so you pick up this book, Conversations with Mani Ratnam, where an...
Behenji by Ajoy Bose – Book Review
Behenji A political biography of Mayawati, a Dalit woman who rose to become one of the strongest politicians of the biggest and politically the...
Churning the Earth by Aseem Shrivastava & Ashish Kothari
The first reaction after finishing the first section of the book Churning the Earth is to see if we can go back to the...
My Way is the Highway by Urvashi Gulia
I expected this book My Way is the Highway to be travel adventure of a solo girl. Who has the guts to leave her...
Breaking Out by Padma Desai – Book Review
Breaking Out is memoirs of a remarkable woman, born in pre-independence India, studied at Harvard just after Independence. Worked in Delhi in the 60s....
Difficult Pleasures by Anjum Hasan
Anjum Hasan’s writing is something that grows slowly on you. For the first couple of stories in Difficult Pleasures, I could not make out...
The Man Within My Head by Pico Iyer
If I had one word to describe this book The Man Within My Head, it would be ‘Haunting’.
The author describes Ghosts, Gods, and Fathers...
