By Saket Suman, Book: The RSS - A View to the Inside; Authors: Walter K. Andersen and Shridhar D. Damle; Publisher: Penguin; Pages: 405; Price: Rs 699 In a book released this week, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) has been projected as "the most influential...
Quignog, an imprint of Pirates has come up with a fictitious book ‘Two Sides of A Coin’ that delves deep into the conscience of two individuals, the first being an army officer and other being a militant. Their dreams rest on their perceived realities of life. The...
By Saket Suman, Book: The Wind In My Hair; Author: Masih Alinejad; Publisher: Little Brown UK/Hachette India; Price: Rs 699; Pages: 394 A courageous woman, driven by nothing but her insistence on living life the way she wanted to, untied her hair and let the beautiful...
By Sarwar Kashani, 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 the world of espionage? Ian...
By Chinmaya Dehury, Title: Naveen Patnaik; Author: Ruben Banerjee; Publishers: Juggernaut; Pages: 226; Price: Rs 469 How did a man, spending his early days on Delhi's cocktail circuit, defy stereotypes to script an enviable success story that has few parallels in the...
New Delhi : The Supreme Court will hear a plea on Thursday that seeks to ban excerpts of Malayalam novel "Meesha", whose serialisation in a leading Malayalam weekly was withdrawn by the author following threats by suspected right-wing outfits. The plea is against the...
By Vikas Datta, Title: The Surajpur Connection; Author: Prabhu Dayal; Publisher: Zorba Books; Pages: 160; Price: Rs 199 The hardest journey to undertake, if it is even possible, is to return to one's childhood home, particularly if it was a happy period. But even this...
By Saket Suman, Book: The Disobedient Indian; Author: Ramin Jahanbegloo; Publisher: Speaking Tiger; Price: Rs 499; Pages: 169 Iconic as he was, the life and times of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi continue to attract scholars and researchers for relevant lessons in...
By Vikas Datta, Title: Hungry Gods; Author: Richa Lakhera; Publisher: Rupa Publications India; Pages: 205; Price: Rs 295 What is the most captivating 'drug' for humans? Fame, greed, lust, and so on are beguiling in their own ways but pale before another intense...
By Vikas Datta, Title: Gravitational Waves; Author: Brian Clegg; Publisher: Icon Hot Science; Pages: 176; Price: Rs 399 Recording the occurrence of a celestial event, far away across deep space and eons after it happened, may not seem a pathbreaking scientific...