Telling the City of Grace’s story: Lucknow’s diligent biographer
By Vikas Datta
The very name of Lucknow, its 'nazakat' and 'nafasat' still evokes a sense of elegant refinement and culture that no other city...
Sanskrit teaching should be made more engaging: Britain-based teacher-author
By M.R. Narayan Swamy
New Delhi--The only way to make Sanskrit popular in India is to teach it in an interesting way, says a Britain-based...
Jaipur Literature Festival to support emerging writers
New Delhi--For the first time, Jaipur BookMark, the B2B segment of the Jaipur Literature Festival, will invite budding authors to share a synopsis of...
Book Review: Dark and provocative, Taslima Nasrin’s latest memoir a tribute to Kolkata
By Saket Suman
Title: Exile - A Memoir; Author: Taslima Nasrin (Translated from Bengali by Maharghya Chakraborty); Publisher: Penguin Random House; Pages: 342; Price: 599
One...
Book Review: Straddling romance and revolution: Faiz’s tumultuous life
By Vikas Datta
Title: Love and Revolution: Faiz Ahmed Faiz - The Authorised Biography; Author: Ali Madeeh Hashmi; Publisher: Rupa Publications India; Pages: 320; Price:...
Dancing with Yasser Arafat and other escapades of a writer
By Vikas Datta
Title: The Pigeon Tunnel - Stories from My Life; Author: John Le Carre; Publisher: Penguin Random House; Pages: 320; Price: Rs 599
There...
Humour must have a nugget of truth to be funny: Twinkle Khanna
By Arundhuti Banerjee
Mumbai--Her debut book "Mrs Funnybones: She's Just Like You and a Lot Like Me" gave readers a glimpse into how she has...
Books This Weekend: Of gifts, tigers and letters
New Delhi-- Flick through inspiring stories of powerful gifts; read about the Sundarbans, a vast tangle of mangrove swamp and tidal delta that India...
Book Review: An Arab Spring version of Aladdin?
By Vikas Datta
Title: A Whole New World - A Twisted Tale; Author: Liz Braswell; Publisher: Paragon Publishing; Pages: 384; Price: Rs 395
A youth in...
Book Review: Explaining Trump’s rise and other strange things
By Vikas Datta
Title: Winning Arguments -- What Works and Doesnt Work in Politics, the Bedroom, the Courtroom, and the Classroom; Author: Stanley Fish; Publisher:...
