Books: Creating marketing synergy, seeking out places for happiness, drawing solace in Banaras
BY VISHNU MAKHIJANI
New Delhi-- Learn about how to increase your company's sales without burning a hole in your pocket -- through co-branding to create synergy...
‘The Leapfroggers’: Good read about India’s efforts to develop its own rockets
By Venkatachari Jagannathan
Book: The Leapfroggers; Author: Ved Prakash Sandlas; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India; Pages: 220; Price: Rs 399
A discussion by space scientists on a...
Of alchemists, gold and the American dream
By Vishnu Makhijani
New Delhi-- It began as a tale of a mother and a daughter, two Indian Americans who are gold thieves, but expanded...
Book Review: Phulkari transposes you into dream world of Punjabi embroidery
BY VISHNU MAKHIJANI
New Delhi-- Close your eyes, utter the word 'Phulkari' and you will be instantly propelled into a VIBGYOR world of Punjabi embroidery that...
Book Review: The dark side of Karachi and its violent politics
By Vikas Datta
Title: The Party Worker; Author: Omar Shahid Hamid; Publisher: Pan Macmillan India; Pages: 336; Price: Rs 399
Of all vendettas, the most vicious...
The Mughal Feast: a tour through Shah Jahan’s elaborate banquets
BY VISHNU MAKHIJANI
New Delhi--Food historian and author Salma Yusuf Hussain's "passion to find out more and more about the cuisine of Mughal India" has...
Milan Kundera and the ‘game of the imagination’
By Vikas Datta
Milan Kundera, most of whose landmark novels were written in his French exile, always chose to label himself as a part of...
Surviving as a digital entrepreneur, Kargil battles retold, of a remembered homeland
New Delhi-- Read about the diehards in the e-commerce space who refused to give up even as the world was crashing around them; next, relive...
When ‘The Light of Asia’ impacted Tagore, Vivekanand
By Jairam Ramesh
In late-February 1912, a play called Buddha was staged at the Royal Court Theatre in London. This was produced by William Poel,...
Books This Weekend: The memoir of a filmmaker, magic and dating
New Delhi-- Study the aesthetics of a noted Malayalam filmmaker, delve into the fantastical world of a young man who conceals within himself a...
