By M.R. Narayan Swamy, (IANS) : Title: The Builders of Delhi; Author: Imtiaz Ahmed Khan; Publisher: Zarreen Khan; Pages: 179; Price: Not mentioned The late Imtiaz Ahmed Khan was an accomplished IAS officer who served in many parts of the ...
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By Vikas Datta, (IANS) : Title: Montalbano’s First Case and Other Stories – A Personal Anthology; Author: Andrea Camilleri (translated by Stephen Sartarelli); Publisher: Pan Macmillan, UK; Pages: 576; Price: Rs 450 It may be their birthplace, but Sicily has ...
Read More »A world of good news: Countries that overcame major problems (Book Review)
By Vikas Datta, (IANS) : Title: The Fix: How Nations Survive and Thrive in a World in Decline; Author: Jonathan Tepperman; Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing; Pages: 320; Price: Rs 499 Toxic and messianic politics, misgovernance, corruption, xenophobia, extremism, ethnic strife, poverty ...
Read More »Jodhabai was actually Portuguese, not a Rajput princess, claims book
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, Panaji, (IANS) : Princess Jodhabai, often referred to as one of Emperor Akbar’s wives and the mother of his son Jahangir, whose life was portrayed onscreen by Aishwarya Rai Bachchan in Bollywood film “Jodha-Akbar”, could have been a ...
Read More »Set in contemporary Pakistan, this novel counters despair with hope (Book Review)
By Saket Suman, (IANS) : Title: The Golden Legend; Author: Nadeem Aslam; Publisher: Penguin Random House; Pages: 376; Price: Rs 599 Nadeem Aslam never disappoints his readers and the characteristic features of his novels — vividly beautiful, lucidly painful and ...
Read More »Uncommon tales of common folks of Uttar Pradesh (Book Review)
By Vikas Datta, (IANS) : Title: Bijnis Woman: Stories of Uttar Pradesh I Heard from My Parents, Mausis and Buas; Author: Tanuja Chandra; Publisher: Penguin Random House India; Pages: 224; Price: Rs 299 A woman’s desperate late-night horse ride to ...
Read More »Lifting the historical amnesia on Jinnah’s marriage (Book Review)
By Saket Suman, (IANS) : (Title: Mr and Mrs Jinnah – The Marriage That Shook India; Publisher: Penguin India; Price: Rs 699; Pages: 421) There is something peculiar about the lives of iconic historical personalities, that most of their stories ...
Read More »Understanding the human condition from responses to rhetorics (Book Review)
By Vikas Datta, (IANS) : Title: Answers to Rhetorical Questions; Author: Caroline Taggart; Publisher: Michael O’Mara/Hachette India; Pages: 160; Price: Rs 250 Questions may seem incomplete without answers but responding to some particular ones, say “To be or not to ...
Read More »A classic on meditation (Book Review)
By M.R. Narayan Swamy, (IANS) : Title: A Million Thoughts; Author: Om Swami; Publisher: Jaico; Pages: 334; Price: Rs 350. There are many books, indeed good books, on meditation. But this one stands out. The author, Om Swami, is no ...
Read More »Marilyn Monroe’s mentoring to smoothen a messed-up life (Book Review)
By Vikas Datta, (IANS) : Title: A Night in With Marilyn Monroe; Author: Lucy Holliday; Publisher: Harper Collins; Pages: 400; Price: Rs 499 We left this modern-day Cinderella quite happy with a smoking-hot actor dating her and a livelihood in ...
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