May reads to add to your bookshelf
N. LOTHUNGBENI HUMTSOE
New Delhi-- From poetry to humour, there's plenty to read while lounging at home during these sweltering days. IANSlife curates some of...
The Most Awaited Reads
New Delhi-- Don't let the weather dampen your spirits and weigh you down, pick up one of these books and dive head first into...
Inspirational Books for teens
OLIVIA SARKAR
New Delhi-- When children reach adolescence, they often experience a wide range of emotions and begin to think about their future. Books are...
Of thwarted desire, misogyny and erasure
New Delhi-- It is the 1970s in rural South Korea and San is alone.
She finally finds a friend in a girl called Namae, until...
Shivji changed the history of the santoor forever, giving it a new identity
VIJAY KICHLU
In the fifty years that I have known Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, who is lovingly addressed as Shivji, I must have witnessed at least...
Chronicle of a war foretold? A century-old conflict and its lessons for today
VIKAS DATTA
After years of secret and not-so-secret alliances, bids to secure areas of influence and lucrative commercial deals, and even the odd land grab,...
Stuti Changle chronicles a storyline of teenage experiences, set in lockdown
New Delhi-- National best-selling author, Stuti Changle, unveils her new novel, Where the Sun Never Sets. Published by Penguin Random House India. Set in...
Miraculous Misdeeds? Locked room crimes and their significance for humans
VIKAS DATTA
Why do we like crime? Like, that is, in the sense of why we are attracted to reports of lurid incidents in our...
Business ethics were foremost for Rahul Bajaj
New Delhi--Despite the innumerable hurdles that he faced in a career spanning over five decades as the head of the diversified Bajaj Group, veteran...
Key insights, tastefully served: The essays of Umberto Eco
VIKAS DATTA
Seeking some informed opinion on some aspect of human society, culture, or politics, that is not rooted in received or polarised social media...
