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In Search Of Heer By Manjul Bajaj
In Search of Heer is the latest book from Manjul Bajaj, my favorite contemporary author. She has a gift of words that she beautifully...
Portraits from Ayodhya by Scharada Dubey
I picked up Portraits from Ayodhya on Amazon, when I was planning my trip to Ayodhya. There are hundreds of books on the city...
Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker by Pavan K Varma
Adi Shankaracharya – Why did none of my textbooks ever thought me about this? This is the first question that comes to your mind...
Narendra Modi: The Man, The Times by Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
This book came before 2014, then Narendra Modi was a Prime ministerial candidate and not the prime minister. This was the time when people...
Chai Chai by Bishwanath Ghosh – Book Review
Chai Chai is the first book by the author of Tamarind City. And you can see that the author Bishwanath Ghosh has grown in his...
In the Hot Unconscious by Charles Foster
Westerners in India, in search of the meaning of life, ashram hopping, jostling with the crowds, taking notes and most of the times still...
Tamarind City by Bishwanath Ghosh
Chennai, a city that has been the true South India for me. And probably for most North Indians like me. Both because of its...
Ghalib at Dusk and other stories by Nighat M Gandhi
Stories of Indian homes, where live some very common men and women in the most mundane ways. Somewhere among them are the people who...
Dreaming in Hindi by Katherine Russell Rich
In my quest to read some travel books, I picked up this book Dreaming in Hindi a few days back. I expected it to...