Recreating ethos of the Tagore women
It is a book that immerses the reader in its rich descriptions of a life that ceased to be more than a century ago. It is not about a person …
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Love, Again: It’s all in DNA?
“Have I fallen in love?”… He knew the answer. And he knew he was walking into a maze…She was married and she was ‘committed’… The maze would be endless, and …
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Bonding over letters: A priceless legacy
In the whirlwind of instant messages, e-mails and Skype, the art of letter writing appears to have been lost. So, to come across a book on letters from parents to …
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Survivor Unbound: The audacity of long-distance runner
( Book: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption; Author: Laura Hillenbrand; Publisher Random House) The author of the best-selling non-fiction Seabiscuit, which was made into …
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Lean in, and make it big: Why women fall short?
(Book: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead; Author: Sheryl Sandberg; Publisher: Knopf) Since its release in March, the book by Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg, named by Forbes …
Read MoreA Moving Tribute to Africa’s Most Wounded City
Ancient towns like Mogadishu, Timbuktu and Aleppo were thriving towns on important trade routes for centuries, and all of them have borne the devastating impact of modern day warfare in …
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Demystifying Exotic Africa
My Mother’s Lovers by Christopher Hope My Mother’s Lovers is the story of Alex who reminisces about his glamorous multi-faceted mother and the adventurous life she lived in Africa. Kathleen, …
Read MoreLove in the times of Gulag
The House of Meetings Author: Martin Amis Martin Amis’s novella is an audacious attempt to compress the past 60 years of Russian history with all its hidden squalor and unspoken …
Read MoreSt. Stephen’s College: Sifting Myths From Reality
St. Stephen’s College, which celebrated its 125th anniversary early this year, has inspired extreme emotions over the years, ranging from pure unadulterated devotion, verging on the religious, to undisguised resentment, …
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Revisiting Khushwant Singh’s Partition Saga
Revisiting Khushwant Singh’s Partition Saga Thousands of Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs walking bare-foot and in bullock-carts migrating to their newly-born countries, trains that brought in cargoes of the dead, instead …
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