Thursday, November 21, 2024
By Imtiyala Jamir | EMN The news of the release of “My Mother’s daughter” had immediately piqued my interest, not only because of its central theme which was domestic violence, but because it was based on true accounts from women who had to be...
08 Sep 2019
Read about an organisation of 4,000 leaders – 275 staff members, 3,000 alumni and 1,000 current Fellows – that’s transforming the lives of 38,000 students across India who otherwise would not have access to quality education; follow the...
01 Sep 2019
Read about the diehards in the e-commerce space who refused to give up even as the world was crashing around them; next, relive the battles of the Kargil war that gave new meaning to the concept of grit and determination; and finally, look at politic...
25 Aug 2019
Read about a new toolkit required to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals that go beyond the precepts of good business management and prevalent best practices in government and civil society organisations; then a handy guide that offers a...
18 Aug 2019
Go beyond defining mountains only by their height, though the summit of a peak is nothing more than the point where it gives way to clouds and the sky; next, ponder over a paradigm shift in ancient Indian history in the modern day search for the myth...
12 Aug 2019
By Vishnu Makhijani | IANS From a convent in Ambala to the high-profile corridors of power in Delhi, from an event manager in Dubai to a “serendipitous” meeting with Shashi Tharoor, from polarising the media to a fairy tale gone wrong, Sunanda P...
04 Aug 2019
Despite the breadth and scope of the Indian media, there is little meaningful literature available about journalism practised in the country today. There have been individual accounts by journalists, some of them pretty eminent, but rarely has an att...
28 Jul 2019
By Vishnu Makhijani | IANS He has been a keen observer of the Indian scene for over five decades, the first 24 of them as a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and thereafter as a politician — first with the Janata Party, then th...
21 Jul 2019
By Imtiyala Jamir | EMN “What does it mean to be a Naga?” Easterine Kire, in her latest book, posits this unrelenting question through a narrative that walks us through the annals of Naga history into the modern era. Kire’s meticulous mapping ...
14 Jul 2019
By Shubha Singh | IANS Gun Island By Amitav Ghosh Penguin Random House, INR 699 Journeys to distant lands, migration and ancient connections between civilisations are recurring themes in Amitav Ghosh’s books. His latest offering, “” is a story...
07 Jul 2019
By Vishnu Makhijani | IANS Mahatma Gandhi had expressed the opinion that a human life could span 125 years and that he would quite like to live that long. “If he had his way, he would have departed not in 1948 but around 1994,” best-selling auth...
30 Jun 2019
By Vishnu Makhijani | IANS India is a nation with a huge demand but one that lacks high quality services. Be it agriculture, manufacturing or other services, the Indian economy is still a work in progress and its political leadership, its bureaucrac...
23 Jun 2019
Kundan Lal Saigal once strode like a collosus over the Hindi and Bangla music worlds, jovial and good-humoured but never sharing his personal tribulations – here’s why; next, explore a new world where changes in technology make one wonder wha...
02 Jun 2019
What’s cricket got to do with helping leaders overcome the mental and other blocks they often face? Plenty, it would seem. Then, also examine the work of an award-winning poet that mediates on our follies in the world as humans. And finally, ponder...
26 May 2019
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar | IANS Sandwiched within the provocatively titled book, “The Assassination of Indira Gandhi”, Upamanyu Chatterjees collection of short stories takes a wide sweep of rural and urban India’s landscapes, and ‘peoplescap...
19 May 2019
Learn how outer order can spell peace for your inner calm and productivity; Read a translated love story that travelled from Persia to medieval Kashmir and eventually to the modern day; And finally, flick through the words of wisdom of some of the gr...
05 May 2019
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar | IANS Book: The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack; Publisher: Fourth Estate; Pages: 269; Price: Rs 599 Heavy on flourish, fleet-footed to the point of extreme convolution and desperately crammed with humour, H.M. Naqvi...
17 Mar 2019
By C. Uday Bhaskar | IANS Book: The Indian Empire At War; Author: George Morton-Jack; Publisher: Little, Brown; Pages: 582; Price INR 699 World War I was a long and brutal military confrontation between the major powers of the early 20th century, fo...
03 Mar 2019
By Saket Suman | IANS Book: The Globotics Upheaval-Globalization, Robotics and the Future of Work; Author: Richard Baldwin; Publisher: Orion/Hachette India; Pages: 292; Price: Rs 699 Predictions about job crisis that the advent of robotics and artif...
24 Feb 2019
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar | IANS Book: Karno’s Daughter; Author: Rimli Sengupta; Publisher: Context; Pages: 187; Price: Rs 499 In India, buttermilk is an often overlooked by-product of milk cream, prepared after churning treated milk vigorously, un...
10 Feb 2019
By Mayabushan Nagvenkar | IANS Book: Pureland; Author: Zarrar Said; Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India; Pages: 322; Price: INR 599 Zarrar’s Said’s “Pureland” could well be a post mortem of a nation, torn at its very ro...
03 Feb 2019
Unlearn straight lines and replenish your pool of creative ideas with a new book, jump aboard an express to everyday happiness and well-being, master the art of selling with lessons from a top American realtor. and finally, tease your brain with a cr...
27 Jan 2019
Witness the unbreakable bond of two girls whose ambition beats patriarchy and poverty; live through a true big fat Bollywood romance; tread through the lanes of Kathmandu as a young girl seeks love and her own space in life, and finally, explore how ...
20 Jan 2019
By Arun Kumar | IANS Book: Open Embrace: India-US ties in the Age of Modi and Trump; Author: Varghese K. George; Publisher: Penguin Random House India; Price: Rs 599. Donald Trump’s “America First” politics with its anti-Islamism focus and Nar...
13 Jan 2019
About the book: Title: Yearnings Author: Vishü Rita Krocha Publisher: PenThrill Publications Pages: 126/ Paperback; Genre: Poetry ISBN: 978-81-936619-7-0 Sigmund Freud, the Austrian psychoanalyst, in presenting his concept of Creative Writing assert...
06 Jan 2019
