Engineering a Life: Memoir of a Punjabi Executive Who Found His True Home in...
When Krishan Bedi was 20-year-old, he came to the United States by boat from a small village in Punjab in 1961. After nine years...
India has survived as a single political entity because of democracy
By Meghnad Desai
(Noted public intellectual, professor of Economics and an active member of the British Labour Party since 1971, Meghnad Desais latest book "The...
The Trump syndrome and its impact: A psychiatric probe
By Vikas Datta
Title: Twilight of American Sanity; Author: Allen Frances; Publisher: William Morrow/Harper Collins: Pages: 336; Price: Rs 799
There are some times you can...
India’s Guilty Secret Book Review
By Vishnu Makhijani
Book: 1984 - India's Guilty Secret; Author Pav Singh; Publisher: Rupa; Pages: 268; Price: Rs 500
The 1984 anti-Sikh riots following the assassination...
The world is made of stories
By Jill Radsken
Harvard Staff Writer
Martin Puchner’s new book, “The Written World: The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization,” begins in space with...
Enid Blyton’s adventures get even more mouth-watering
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Book: Jolly Good Food; Author: Allegra McEvedy; Publisher: Hodder Children's Books; Price: Rs. 799; Pages: 133
Enid Blyton knew her mysteries. She also...
Reading replays: How some books always remain on our mind
By Vikas Datta
There are many habits of fervently compulsive readers that can bemuse people around them, but among the most puzzling for their parents...
Books This Weekend: Of surrogacy, life, relations and Partition
New Delhi-- See how two women discover the best and the worst about India's surrogacy industry; discover another meaning of life from the story...
Book Review: Inside the dark mind of Hanif Kureishi
By Himani Kothari
Title: The Nothing; Author: Hanif Kureishi; Publisher: Faber & Faber; Pages: 167; Price: Rs 599
Hanif Kureishi is growing old. So are his...
Not merely a war god: The enigma of Kartikeya
By Vikas Datta
Title: Kartikeya: The Destroyer's Son; Author: Anuja Chandramouli; Publisher: Rupa Publications India; Pages: 240; Price: Rs 295
The Hindu pantheon has a number...