Book Name: Gunboat Jack Author: Timeri N. Murari Publisher: Aleph Genre: Fiction Rating: 4/5 Book Blurb: Based on a real-life character, a legendary American boxer who lived in Bangalore in the 1960s and the 1970s, Timeri N. Murari’s novel tells…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 295, 268PP) From the Commonwealth Prize-winning author comes another intense story from Kashmir Commandant Abdul Aziz, Special Forces, Kashmir is a legendary police officer in the valley, albeit not always for good reasons. And then one…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 295, 272PP) A rich Delhi socialite dies, leaving behind a peculiar will. To inherit his estate, his wife Gurleen Rambal must confess to an infidelity and name the father of her only son, or face expropriation.…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 295, 264PP) Delhi has been ruled and ruined, loved and lusted, lost and found by so many of its rulers and inhabitants; yet Delhi survives it all. Delhi: A History is a historical portrait of a city…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 295, 256PP) Revered both in South Asia and the world as a great poet and literary figure, Rabindranath Tagore was also a courageous public intellectual. Two-thirds of his writings were essays and letters in which he…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 295, 192PP) Can I become a leader? What does it take to become a successful leader? What is it that a leader does which singles him out from the rest? All the attributes that are required…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 500, 224PP) The incredible story of one of the finest Indian actors of our generation. An actor whose eyes narrate a sea of stories. Irrfan Khan is a gentle dreamer with arresting eyes, a towering presence…
New Delhi, December 16, 2019: The story of toil, passion, hard work and the definitive journey of Dipa Karmakar, from a sporting outpost to becoming the face of gymnastics in India, “Dipa Karmakar: The Small Wonder”, co-authored by veteran sports…
Book Name: With Ash on their Faces Author: Cathy Otten Publisher: Fingerprint Genre: Non-fiction Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: Isis’s genocidal attack on the yezidi population of northern Iraq in the summer of 2014 brought the world’s attention to followers of…
Book Name: The Aayakudi Murders Author: Indra Soundar Rajan Translated by: Nirmal Rajagopalan Publisher: Blaft Publications Genre: Fiction Rating: 5/5 Blurb: When intrepid young journalist Rajendran first arrives in Aayakudi to investigate a curious tip about a ghost, the place…
The best account yet of Plassey, the battle that changed Indian history forever. REVIEWS ‘Sudeep Chakravarti’s book on the battle of Plassey is popular history writing at its very best. He has looked at all the relevant sources and books…
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