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By Saket Suman | IANS Book: The Last Girl; Author: Nadia Murad; Publisher: Vergo Press/Hachette India; Pages: 306; Price: Rs 499 She suffered at the hands of the Islamic State, was held captive as a sex slave, but went on to become a human rights ca...
30 Dec 2018
By Dr. Kevileno Sakhrie True Love Keeps Moving: A collection of prose and poetry by Wedekhro Naro is a 112-paged work featuring 7 stories in prose and 20 poems published by PenThrill Publication House, Kohima, Nagaland. In this work, the author move...
17 Dec 2018
An honest assessment of the times, even for the casual observer, reveals that we, as a society, have become people who cannot seem to stomach truthful observations. Whether this may be underpinned to being beleaguered by the sentinels who prescribe n...
12 Dec 2018
Read a biography charting Mamata Banerjee’s rise from a student leader to the first woman Chief Minister of West Bengal and how she could be a possible “kingmaker” after the 2019 general elections; take in a novel set against the backdrop of ol...
09 Dec 2018
By Saket Suman | IANS Book: Plato’s Alarm Clock and Other Amazing Ancient Inventions; Author: James M. Russell; Publisher: Michael O’Mara Books Limited/Hachette India; Price: Rs 399/ Pages: 192 Ancient inventions like the calendar, alarm...
02 Dec 2018
By Mohammed Shafeeq | IANS Book: Hostage; Author: Greta Rana; Publisher: Speaking Tiger Publishing; Price: Rs 350; Pages: 223 This novel by Greta Rana is inspired by a true story of Nepali migrants. She dedicated it to 12 Nepali migrants who were mu...
25 Nov 2018
Read a heart-breaking love story – one that will transcend decades, continents and the workings of fate. There’s also a gripping mystery and a page-turning next instalment in the ongoing story of Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott. Next up is...
18 Nov 2018
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar | IANS Book: Red Birds; Author: Mohammed Hanif; Publisher: Bloomsbury; Price: Rs 599; Pages: 304 With a fallen pilot, an ambitious, but floundering, teenager and a dog as the three narrators, Pakistani writer Mohammed Hanif,...
11 Nov 2018
By Saket Suman | IANS Book: Art matters; Author: Neil Gaiman; Illustrator: Chris Riddell; Publisher: Headline/Hachette India; Price: Rs 399; Pages: 112 Here’s a writer — read widely and revered globally — who never graduated from a college but...
04 Nov 2018
Take a journey to transcend your fears and illusions around parenting; discover how to ditch plastic, reduce your rubbish and start taking everyday steps that will make all the difference; and learn to do a vigorous mental workout to help increase yo...
28 Oct 2018
By Saket Suman | IANS Book: Knot for Keeps: Writing The Modern Marriage; Edited by: Sathya Saran; Publisher: HarperCollins; Pages: 164; Price: Rs 299 There is a temple in Thiruvidanthai in Tamil Nadu where Hindu deity Vishnu is regarded as “Nithya...
14 Oct 2018
By Kushagra Dixit | IANS Book: The Rise and Fall of the Emerald Tigers: Ten Years of Research in Panna National Park; Author: Raghu Chundawat; Pages:356; Price: Rs. 899 In a world of self-styled tiger experts, lack of research and scandalous cover-u...
07 Oct 2018
By Saket Suman | IANS International titles by acclaimed authors will once again rule the roost in October, along with a biography of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and a splendid story for children, woven around the life of late President A.P.J. Abdul Kala...
30 Sep 2018
By Saket Suman | IANS Book: The Rabbit & The Squirrel; Author: Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi; Publisher: Penguin; Pages: 66; Price: Rs 399 This tiny book — its prose poignant and illustrations beautiful — may come across as a light read, but i...
23 Sep 2018
By Saket Suman | IANS Book: The Beauty of All My Days; Author: Ruskin Bond; Publisher: Penguin; Pages: 183; Price: Rs 499 Life is one epic story and the experiences that each individual has is varied and distinct. Author Ruskin Bond has been penning...
16 Sep 2018
By Saket Suman | IANS Book: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century; Author: Yuval Noah Harari; Publisher: Penguin; Price: Rs 799; Pages: 352 Yuval Noah Harari, the million-copy bestselling author of “Sapiens” and “Homo Deus”, has returned with “21...
09 Sep 2018
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar | IANS Book: Like a Bird on the Wire; Author: Chhavi Bhardwaj; Publisher: Amaryllis; Pages: 327; Price: Rs. 399 If 1983 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Upamanyu Chatterjee’s “English, August” gave rea...
02 Sep 2018
By Sarwar Kashani | IANS Title: “The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage”, Author: Vikram Sood; Publisher: Penguin Random House; Pages: 304; Price: Rs 599 What do you expect from a book that promises insights into ...
19 Aug 2018
By Bhavana Akella | IANS Title: Illiberal India – Gauri Lankesh and the Age of Unreason; Author: Chidanand Rajghatta; Publisher: Context by Westland; Pages: 242; Price: Rs 499 The brutal murder of veteran journalist-cum-activist Gauri Lankesh ...
12 Aug 2018
By Saket Suman | IANS With the release of riveting novels such as “Latitudes of Longing” by Shubhangi Swarup and “All The Lives We Never Lived” by Anuradha Roy, the Indian bookshelf has thrown up quite a lot in recent months for fiction love...
05 Aug 2018
By Mohammed Shafeeq | IANS Title: Humans on the Run; Author: Kumar M. Tiku; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages: 280; Price: Rs 650 For millions of people displaced around the world, “Home is where the heart is”. Each one of them has a sto...
22 Jul 2018
By Dzüvinguno Dorothy Chasie Book: Insider Perspectives: Critical Essays on Literature from Nagaland Author: Vizovono Elizabeth and SentinaroTsuren Norway: Barkweaver Publications 2017, 1-210 Price: Rs. 300/- (Available online at www.ilandlo.com) O...
16 Jul 2018
By Vikas Datta | IANS They can have a fair claim to be the most misunderstood minority, despite all their contributions — solving mysteries, helping all sorts of people out of tight spots and otherwise enhancing human knowledge in myriad ways. As ...
08 Jul 2018
By Saket Suman | IANS Though summer is at its peak in most parts of India and literary events almost at a standstill, the coming month will bring cheer to many readers as it will mark the release of some riveting offerings. Here are the five books y...
01 Jul 2018
By Vikas Datta | IANS “The whole Earth is the sepulchre of famous men..” observed ancient Greek statesman Pericles in a memorial ceremony, noting that their story doesn’t only survive on their gravestones, but “lives on far away…” No...
24 Jun 2018
