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...
Books: One last bright spark of Lucknow glorious tradition
By Vikas Datta
Any literary tradition demonstrates its virtuosity and vitality in how even its last proponents keep up its standards, even as the style...
Books This Weekend: Memoirs of a boxer, business tips, zoom your career upwards
New Delhi-- Read the memoir of boxer Laishram Sarita Devi; delve into the remarkable journeys of start-ups like Flipkart, Snapdeal and Paytm; find the...
NBT slammed for removing Bipan Chandra book from catalogue
New Delhi--Sahmat, an activist group based in Delhi, on Wednesday denounced the National Book Trust (NBT) decision to remove eminent historian Bipan Chandra's book...
The Foremost Indian Teacher S. Radhakrishnan: Diplomatic and political successes
By Vikas Datta
Soon after he became India's second President, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's birthday began to be celebrated as "Teachers' Day", given his belief that "teachers...
