Seventy years after India gained its Independence from British rule and suffered the pain of Partition, the nation struggles to define its soul. India’s politics today is not about which party wins the majority in the legislature, but about defining…
Book Name: A Sweet Deal Author: Andaleeb Wajid Publisher: Fingerprint Genre: Romance Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: Say hi to Rumana. A freshly minted (baked?) chef who decides to trade her powersuit for chef’s whites to live her dream of owning…
Here are the top 10 non-fiction books of 2019. 10. DIPA KARMAKAR by Bishweshwar Nandi, Digvijay Singh Deo and Vimal Mohan This fascinating memoir of Dipa’s incredible journey from Tripura, an almost forgotten sporting outpost, to Rio de Janeiro, the…
Book Name: New Kings of the World Author: Fatima Bhutto Publisher: Aleph Genre: Non-fiction Rating: 3.8/5 Book Blurb: There is a vast cultural movement emerging from the Global South and sweeping all before it. India’s Shah Rukh Khan, after all,…
Written over a decade, Calling Over Water features poems in three movements. The first trails a wake of lacunae and dislocation but also remembrance and gratitude for departed loved ones. Next, the tempo shifts as the mind sifts through dazzlement,…
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…