By Vikas Datta, Title: Missing, Presumed Dead; Author: Kiran Manral; Publisher: Amaryllis Books; Pages: 268; Price: Rs 350 With all the duplicity, self-interest, hidden motives and betrayals -- both big and small -- we face in our lives, the thin line separating us...
By Mohammed Shafeeq, 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 story to tell. The stories of...
By Siddhi Jain, Title: Rajasthani Miniatures: The Magic of Strokes and Colours; Author: Dr Daljeet; Publisher: Niyogi Books; Pages: 392; Price: Rs 4000 During the 1600s, the spiritual unity reflected in Rajasthani miniature paintings began giving way to a more popular...
By Vikas Datta, Title: Forever and a Day; Author: Anthony Horowitz; Publisher: Jonathan Cape/Penguin Random House; Pages: 304; Price: Rs 599 Before he turned up at the baccarat tables of Royale-les-Eauex in an imaginative operation to discredit a French trade union...
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, Book: The Sensational Life and Death of Qandeel Baloch; Author: Sanam Maher; Publisher: Aleph; Pages: 272; Price: Rs 466 Like a dragon exhaling spurts of fire, the global social media factory has spewed many a fiesty celebrities over time....
By Vikas Datta, Title: Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life; Author: Hector Garcia & Francesc Miralles; Publisher: Hutchinson/Penguin Random House; Pages: 208; Price: Rs 499 A British businessman once recounted that while holidaying in Asia, he met...
By Karan Thapar, I cant claim that I was close to the entire Gandhi family, but there was a time when Sanjay, Indira Gandhis younger son, was a good friend. In fact, he even tried to teach me to fly a plane, without success but with considerable daredevilry. I first...
By Vikas Datta, Title: Being Ecological; Author: Timothy Morton; Publisher: Pelican/Penguin Random House UK; Pages: 240; Price: Rs 399 Global warming is a reality and many throughout the world acknowledge it, but then, there are also significant, and influential,...
By Vikas Datta, Title: The Courage To Be Disliked; Author: Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga; Publisher: Allen & Unwin; Pages: 288; Price: Rs 499 The few irredeemable misanthropes apart, every human being has a unique relation with fellow beings -- seeking to be...
By Saket Suman, New Delhi : With the new weapon of choice to intimidate publishers being the legal injunction, industry stakeholders contend that they have escaped the heavy hand of direct political intimidation -- perhaps because a critical book is not as potent as a...