The portrait of a music legend
By Siddhi Jain
New Delhi--Not many know that when renowned Indian classical musician and Padma Vibhushan recipient late Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan was just a...
18 book covers in Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize longlist
By Siddhi Jain
New Delhi--The Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize has announced its longlist for the sixth edition at the Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2021.
The...
Book Review: Princestan: How Nehru, Patel and Mountbatten Made India
By Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
New Delhi--There was no dearth of secessionist claims. It seems like throughout the second half of the century, after the Indian...
JLF’s 14th edition to return virtually from Feb 19-28
New Delhi-- Dubbed the "greatest literary show on Earth", the Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) returns in a virtual avatar from February 19-28 featuring a...
‘The Death Script’: A haunting account of the Maoist insurgency
By Ashutosh Kumar Thakur
Narrated in multiple voices, 'The Death Script' is a creative biography of 'Dandakaranya' that combines the rigour of journalism, the intimacy...
Anuradha Goyal pens a must-read guidebook to India’s temples
By Siddhi Jain
New Delhi-- For author and noted travel blogger Anuradha Goyal, who has penned the book 'Lotus in the Stone: Sacred Journeys in...
Maharashtra kingdom people were affable: Chinese traveller Xuanzang
By Quaid Najmi
Mumbai-- The people of the ancient Maharashtra kingdom were "very warm, friendly and helpful, with high self-esteem", observed the great Chinese Buddhist...
Gita, Ramcharitmanas remain Gita Press top grosser
Gorakhpur-- The Bhagwad Gita, Tulsi Das' "Ramcharitmanas" and Durga Saptashati were the top selling books published by the iconic publishing house Gita Press at the...
The Kamala Harris saga continues with another biography
New Delhi--"Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last," the US Vice President-elect's mother...
Book: ‘Kamala’s Way’ charts an engaging journey from California to Washington
New Delhi--Just how did the daughter of two immigrants in segregated California became one of this countrys most effective power players? Through the human...
