Books
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Book Review: Love in the shadow of the ‘Nirbhaya’ episode
By Vikas Datta Title: Mornings After; Author: Tharun James Jimani; Publisher: Bloomsbury India; Pages: 272; Price: Rs 350 Love, the…
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Bob Dylan: Blowing in the Wind to Nobel Literature Prize
By Vikas Datta An unconventional singer – with a raspy, almost nasal voice instead of honeyed tones – burst into…
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Books This Weekend: Ramayana, kingdoms and timeless tales of love
New Delhi– Dive into the epic Ramayana by learning about it in rhymes. Also, wade through a charmingly illustrated retelling…
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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;…
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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.…
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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:…
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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…
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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;…
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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…
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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;…
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