Book Review: Unveiling the motivations and mindset of the Pakistani Taliban
By Vikas Datta
Title: Guardians of God - Inside the Religious Mind of the Pakistani Taliban; Author: Mona Kanwal Sheikh; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages:...
Bookend: Horror, mystery and self-discovery
New Delhi-- Bury yourself in dark and scary tales of horror and mystery, wade through a momentous journey of self-discovery. Also, know the story...
Book Review: Rao cleaned the mess created by Indira, Rajiv: Sanjaya Baru
By Mohd Asim Khan
Book: 1991: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Made History: Author: Sanjaya Baru; Publisher: Aleph; Pages: 216; Price: Rs 250
If today's Indian leadership...
Bookend: Of history, love and millennials
New Delhi--Read the story of an English painter and his apprentice, whose paintings become the unexpected crux of the last Anglo-Mysore War. Flick through...
Book Review: Understanding the maelstrom of the modern Middle East
By Vikas Datta
Title: And Then All Hell Broke Loose - Two Decades in the Middle East; Author: Richard Engel; Publisher: Simon and Schuster; Pages:...
When neurotransmitters find their way into a cookbook
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar
Panaji--Biting into a chocolate truffle tickles the neurotransmitters in the brain as much as it may tantalise your taste-buds, Bavaria-born author Korenelia...
TV18: Making of a media empire and how hubris and miscalculations lost it
By Vikas Datta
Title: Network18 - The Audacious Story of a Start-up that Became a Media Empire; Author: Indira Kannan; Publisher: Portfolio Penguin; Pages: 352;...
Bookends: Power games, suspense, Indian lives
New Delhi-- Immerse yourself in the thrilling story of a young politician fighting corruption, know the struggles of a journalist as she reports a...
The High Bouncing Lover: Here is how liberalization in India changed lives, lifestyles
By Vishal Gulati
Chandigarh--Author-journalist Ashwini Bhatnagar's fourth book -- and first work of fiction -- is bang on time in terms of topicality.
This is the...
Book Review: Maintaining and building an air force: forgotten legend of Indian Air Force
By Vikas Datta
Title: Spitfire Singh; Author: Mike Edwards; Publisher: Bloomsbury India; Pages: 334; Price: Rs 499
Joining the Indian Air Force in 1939 as a...