Book Review: Grappling With Glory: India and its Wrestling tradition
By Vikas Datta
Title: Enter the Dangal; Author: Rudraneil Sengupta; Publisher: Harper Sport (HarperCollins); Pages: 274; Price: Rs 350
Sakshi Malik picked up the first medal...
Books This Weekend: Of oratory, diplomacy and pressure management
New Delhi-- Imbibe great oratorical skills, know about the real politik of the modern world, get introduced to the concept of pressure management and...
Tamil literature has a modern, vibrant idiom
By Somrita Ghosh
New Delhi--With a surge in translations of Indian literature into English, readers across the spectrum have been transcending the language barrier.
From novels...
Book Review: A Whirlwind in World Cricket: The West Indies at the Top
By Vikas Datta
Title: Fire in Babylon - How the West Indies Cricket Team Brought a People to its Feet; Author: Simon Lister; Publisher: Yellow...
Former LTTE No.2 was RAW agent: Book
New Delhi--An LTTE leader who was once a deputy to its supreme leader Velupillai Prabhakaran was a RAW agent, recruited as early as 1989,...
Books: Of hacking, love and healthy cooking
New Delhi-- Flick through an interesting story of a hacker, read the difficult love affair of a spoiled diva, learn some easy-to-prepare recipes that...
Temples of India: an ode to geometry, architecture
By Vishnu Makhijani
New Delhi-- It's rare to come across an individual who's adept with both pen and camera -- more so when photography grew...
Bookend: Adolf Hitler’s short-lived successor and his contribution
By Vikas Datta
Title: Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich; Author: Barry Turner; Publisher: Icon Books/Penguin India; Pages: 304; Price: Rs...
Book Review: The toxic mess that Pakistan is in – and how it happened
By Vikas Datta
Title: Sleepwalking to Surrender - Dealing with Terrorism in Pakistan; Author: Khaled Ahmed; Publisher: Penguin Random House India; Pages: 470; Price: Rs...
Book: The Cursed Father: Harry Potter and his last outing
It has been over a week since the "last" Harry Potter story came, with the "Boy Who Lived" now an overworked, middle-aged father who...
