Humour must have a nugget of truth to be funny: Twinkle Khanna
By Arundhuti Banerjee
Mumbai--Her debut book "Mrs Funnybones: She's Just Like You and a Lot Like Me" gave readers a glimpse into how she has...
Books This Weekend: Of gifts, tigers and letters
New Delhi-- Flick through inspiring stories of powerful gifts; read about the Sundarbans, a vast tangle of mangrove swamp and tidal delta that India...
Book Review: An Arab Spring version of Aladdin?
By Vikas Datta
Title: A Whole New World - A Twisted Tale; Author: Liz Braswell; Publisher: Paragon Publishing; Pages: 384; Price: Rs 395
A youth in...
Book Review: Explaining Trump’s rise and other strange things
By Vikas Datta
Title: Winning Arguments -- What Works and Doesnt Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom; Author: Stanley Fish; Publisher:...
Demystifying life’s daunting subjects, the Ashwin Sanghi way
By Vishnu Makhijani
New Delhi-- It started off as a stand-alone, then expanded to a 13-book series. Now, says Ashwin Sanghi, one of India's highest-selling...
Making our futile but necessary lives meaningful Camus’ Absurd way
By Vikas Datta
All religions are based on fate, or some divine design and control over humans, and so are some philosophies (the universe conspiring...
Britons suffer from ‘deliberate historical amnesia’, says Tharoor
New Delhi-- Britain has constantly suffered from "deliberate historical amnesia" about their wrong-doings during their colonial rule in India, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said...
Bookends: Love, struggles and call center scams
New Delhi--Read the story of a woman searching for a world where she will find love, delve into the interesting story of a desirable...
Calcutta, Bengalis intrinsically linked to evolution of Indian football
By Mayank Chhaya
Chicago-- As a sport, nothing rivals football. Cricket may generate great intensity among its followers but the game's geographic spread and cultural...
Book Review: The Sun Temple of Konark: Impassioned plea for a new structure
By Vishnu Makhijani
Book: The Sun Temple of Konark; Author: Anil Dey; Publisher: Niyogi Books; Pages: 467; Price: Rs 1,495/$40/25 pounds
It has withstood the ravages...