ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 295, 240 PP) My Selfie with Integrity chronicles the life of a middle-class Calcutta boy, who suddenly finds himself at the helm of a public listed company by a twist in the tale. When predictably he is…
ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 595, 248PP) When Narasimha Rao became the prime minister in 1991, just a billion dollars separated India from bankruptcy. He was told by Finance Minister Manmohan Singh, that petrol pumps would run dry after two weeks.…
A groundbreaking book that introduces you to simple, wholesome, everyday foods. ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 295, 256PP) What if you could simply eat your way to a longer, healthier life? What if there was a prescription that could help you…
ABOUT THE BOOK ( INR495, 232PP) An inward-looking economy with a State-dominated development programme to a liberalized economy operating in a globalized world—India has indeed come a long way since Independence. In this volume, Bimal Jalan—long-standing witness to India’s trajectory…
Book Name: Delhi: A History Author: Manisha Choudhary Publisher: Rupa Genre: Non-fiction/history Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: Delhi: A History is a historical portrait of a city whose past has reference in mythology and whose present is rooted in modernity. A…
We had managed to cheat it Through affluence and development Through barricades and gates And it has evolved, mutated, we say, To show us where We were stuck Where we suck. Death is a great equalizer. We are only well,…
Miracle at Happy Bazaar is the biggest and best book of children’s tales by Ruskin Bond yet published. Personally selected by the author, these fifty stories are the finest of the several hundred tales spun by India’s favourite children’s author in…
Your books stacked along the wall frame the photo of a guru without a name. His sober face reveals little. I wonder if he ever made a promise to you. I sprinkle rosewater on my hair and clothes— reminders of…
Broken between spines, people-birds drop like grapes to water worlds, breathless, blistered and imploding from age. Fish banter to sound alive. Horizon is a line of squinting eyes, they think. What if the dead were not dead enough? Our fossilized…
You know how your mother tongue separates you? In answering your phone, sitting between your friends when your brother asks when to pick you up; in the surprising tone of your colleague who tells you how your accent is different from those…
The definitive biography of one of the greatest rulers in history. ABOUT THE BOOK (INR 799, 616 PP) Abu’l Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar, the third Mughal emperor, is widely regarded as one of the greatest rulers in India’s history. During…