Bookends: The sun of Indian wisdom and his arduous task
By Vikas Datta
Confusingly complicated family relations, logical puzzles for intellectual betterment, problem-solving by, and through, imagination, the importance of choices, and the spinning on...
Book: Alluring Kashmir: a pleasant reminder that paradise is not all lost
By Vishnu Makhijani
New Delhi-- Amid the myriad discordant voices on Kashmir, just when it seemed there is no end to the ongoing madness, comes...
Book Review: Odd people and what we owe to them
By Vikas Datta
Title: The Odditorium; Author: David Bramwell & Jo Keeling; Publisher: Brewer's/Hachette India; Pages: 256; Price: Rs 599
Who was the first 'prominent' American...
Books This Weekend: Explore religious fables, understand the Quran, delve into a memoir
New Delhi -- Every religion has great tales to tell. Here is a book that brings together great fables of Hindu religion -- from...
Obamas sign book deal with Penguin Random House
Washington -- In a significant deal, the forthcoming books by former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama will be published by...
Book Review: An Indian eternal man and the philosopher’s stone quest
By Vikas Datta
Title: Immortal; Author: Krishna Udayasankar; Publisher: Hachette India; Pages: 408; Price: Rs 399
Some mythological/folklore motifs can be found in all civilisations, and...
We are defined by our love, nothing less and nothing more
By Saket Suman
New Delhi-- Human life is solely about love, says the author of a recent book that attempts to unravel several significant facets...
Books This Weekend: Women warriors, young men and Chanakya
New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Get to know extraordinary women and their highs and lows, flick through the story of four men who grope...
Book Review: Holier than thou? These Indian women shattered prevailing notions long before Western...
By Saket Suman
Title: Heroines -- Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History; Author: Ira Mukhoty; Publisher: Aleph; Price: Rs 499; Pages: 211
Long before the...
Books This Weekend: An Everest mystery, ideas for the future, and writing skills
New Delhi-- Wade through a journey from the dangerous heights of Mount Everest to the equally treacherous margins of Europe in the mid-20th century;...
