I’m at Hillar Shahabad. Life is passing fast. It has started raining. Train is moving through the villages. It has entered the tunnel cutting the Pir Panjal mountains. The whole world is conversing inside the train. People are looking at…
Book Name: Before You Start Up Author’s Name: Pankaj Goyal Publisher: Fingerprint Publishing Rating: 3.9/5 Book Blurb: Are you a: “Wannabe” entrepreneur in school or college with big dreams in your eyes? “Friday-night-after-drinks” aspiring entrepreneur in your 20s/30s? “Ready-to-go” soon-to-be entrepreneur?…
In this memoir, the author recounts his experiences of growing up in Delhi during a period of ‘Biswin Sadi’— the 20th century, when it felt like a new age had just begun, although it’s already mid-century. Living in a suburb…
Book Name: A Hundred Little Flames Author: Preeti Shenoy Publisher: Westland Publications Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: When 26-year-old Ayan is sent to live with his grumpy old grandfather Gopal Shanker, in a tiny village, in Kerala, he is understandably devastated. What…
As Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of LinkedIn, once said about start-ups, “You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down”. An excellent addition to the world of start-up literature, Before you Start Up is intended…
The Buddha of the Brothel is a poignant memoir by Kris Advaya. It is a thrilling, eloquent, and deeply personal story of heartbreak, love and misadventure, The Buddha of the Brothel is the true story of Kris’s journey in India—a…
Going to every room, touching every wall— embracing, feeling, absorbing like you can take it away, along some of it at least. You can see yourself little, fragile, undamaged in your summer courtyard of 1998 running, falling, giggling, fighting; now…
The writer Zac O’ Yeah with a team of skilled writers runs a creative writing workshop at the Shoonya Institute, located in Bangaluru, Karnataka, India. To learn more about Zac O’ Yeah and his work, read his interview with New…
Zac O’Yeah is the author of the popular comic thriller Once Upon a Time in Scandinavistan and Mr Majestic! The Tout of Bengaluru which is the first of the Hari Majestic crime and detective series. He has written twelve other…
Book Name: Hinduism and Nature Author: Nanditha Krishnan Publisher: Penguin Random House India Rating: 3.9/5 Book Blurb: The basis of Hinduism is dharma or righteousness, incorporating duty, cosmic law and justice. Five thousand years ago, the Vedas showed a clear appreciation of the…
Book Name: The Inheritors Author: Sonu Bhasin Publisher: Penguin Random House India Rating: 4.5/5 Book Blurb: Why did Harsh Mariwala leave his family business? What made the entire Dabur management to quit one day? How did Dhingra brothers turn a suffering business…