There are many things that could draw you to a book, but fewer things that keeps you hooked on to it. I’ve jotted down a few reasons why I believe books are great. If you have more to add, leave ...Read More
A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. ~William Styron
With a deep love for travel, and an equally matched passion for writing, it is only natural that I take to ...Read More
Journalist and writer Narayani Ganesh has written candidly about her iconic father in her heart-warming book, Eternal Romantic- My Father, Gemini Ganesan (Roli Books) and talks to Humra Quraishi about it.
I’m no film buff, yet I enjoyed reading Narayani Ganesh’s book on her father, the legendary Tamil actor Gemini Ganesan…so ...Read More
Ambition has no gender. Fulfilment in life and work is not a gender specific pursuit and yet somehow, marriage, family and professional success often become chemically disparate when it comes to women in India. Are Indian women really free to ...Read More
Is there a book in you, waiting to get out? Now is the time to start writing it because as a bit of online research will show you, India is the sixth-largest publishing industry in the world and the numbers are ticking everyday ...Read More
Monideepa Sahu is as softspoken as sunshine on a winter day. Mellow and sedate. But in her imagination, there crouches a child that dreams, weaves stories laughingly and creates pretend friends like Rishabh the rat and Shashee the spider who ...Read More
Victor Rangel-Ribeiro’s Loving Ayesha and Other Stories (Harper Collins India) is a collection that first appeared in 2003, but apart from a couple of stories, that have appeared in magazines, I read this entire collection only just now and this late discovery is a ...Read More
I begin with a shamefaced confession. I discovered Meira Chand only a few months before I moved to Singapore, and thats when I made up my mind to read A Different Sky.
One thing about reading a novel you soon find ...Read More
Unboxed Writers was ideated as a counterpoint to the lack of respect for creativity in corporate contexts but if I told author and playwright Vijay Nair that, he would laugh. Politely of course for he is a gentleman and I ...Read More
Siddhartha Sarma's East of the Sun reminded me of something I had almost forgotten. The pleasure of being a journalist and the joy of encountering something that urgently warrants a stream-of-consciousness piece.
East of the Sun is about an itch to travel..an itch that loops itself ...Read More
Author Jahnavi Barua does not carry the burden of history though her writing easily, without making a ceremony of it, touches its frayed seams, its tautly pulsing, raw nerves. There is no attempt to rub the reader's nose in the politics of the North-East, a region ...Read More
Some time back I watched The Blue Umbrella, a children's movie based on a novella by Ruskin Bond, and directed by one of my favourite movie makers, Vishal Bharadwaj, known to make movies out of books. And I watched ...Read More
