White Crane: A Tibetan Tale of Love and War
By Vishnu Makhijani
New Delhi-- He was the first Tibetan to be admitted a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons but could re-visit his...
Book Review: The other detectives of Baker Street – and their chilling cases
By Vikas Datta
Title: The Women of Baker Street; Author: Michelle Birkby; Publisher: Pan Macmillan UK; Pages: 361; Price: Rs 399
On the foggy streets of...
Books This Weekend: Circus, romance and love for trees
New Delhi--Read a classic action-packed story of loyalty, faith and teamwork revolving around a circus; flick through a love story driven by fate, which...
Book Review: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War
By Vikas Datta
Title: Defeat is an Orphan: How Pakistan Lost the Great South Asian War; Author: Myra Macdonald; Publisher: Penguin Random House India; Pages:...
Books This Weekend: Alternate thinking, corporate crime, learning to cope
New Delhi--Learn from a powerful rejoinder to corporate group thinking and an indispensable resource for leaders and innovators who want to stand out from...
Book Review: Matching wits with Mafia and other malefactors
By Vikas Datta
Title: Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories - A Personal Anthology; Author: Andrea Camilleri (translated by Stephen Sartarelli); Publisher: Pan Macmillan, UK;...
Set in contemporary Pakistan, this novel counters despair with hope
By Saket Suman
Title: The Golden Legend; Author: Nadeem Aslam; Publisher: Penguin Random House; Pages: 376; Price: Rs 599
Nadeem Aslam never disappoints his readers and...
Book Review: Yankee who roamed in Central Asia, served the Khalsa
By Vikas Datta
Title: The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander Gardner; Author: John Keay; Publisher: Kashi House; Pages: 352; Price: Rs 2,400 (approx)
In one...
Book Review: Lifting the historical amnesia on Jinnah’s marriage
By Saket Suman
(Title: Mr and Mrs Jinnah - The Marriage That Shook India; Publisher: Penguin India; Price: Rs 699; Pages: 421)
There is something peculiar...
Book Review: Understanding the human condition from responses to rhetorics
By Vikas Datta
Title: Answers to Rhetorical Questions; Author: Caroline Taggart; Publisher: Michael O'Mara/Hachette India; Pages: 160; Price: Rs 250
Questions may seem incomplete without...
