By M.R. Narayan Swamy, Title: Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism's Greatest Thinker; Author: Pavan K. Varma; Publisher: Tranquebar Press; Pages: 364; Price: Rs 699 This must be one of the greatest tributes ever paid to Shankaracharya, the quintessential...
By Devdutt Pattanaik, The key to understanding Karmic faiths is to look at stories, for it is through stories that the common folk understood their faith. In Hinduism, we find many stories where God transforms into Goddess, indicating gender fluidity, as also men...
By Vikas Datta, Title: The Genius Test: Can You Master the World's Hardest Ideas?; Author: Giles Sparrow; Publisher: Quercus; Pages: 224; Price: Rs 599 The biggest fallacy in our high-tech world is believing that the stunning advances in knowledge -- now accessible...
By Saket Suman, New Delhi : A biography that traces Baba Ramdev's rise from godman to tycoon has been caught up in a legal storm for over 11 months; Amish Tripathi's upcoming book has been served a legal notice and its launch postponed; a nonfiction account on Bastar...
By Vikas Datta, Title: The President is Missing; Author: Bill Clinton & James Patterson; Publisher: Century/Penguin Random House; Pages: 528; Price: Rs 599 The world's most powerful nation faces a terrible terrorist threat that can send it reeling into chaos and...
By Saket Suman, Book: Too Many Men Too Few Women; Edited by: Ravinder Kaur; Publisher: Orient Blackswan; Pages: 340; Price: Rs 925 Much of the scholarly work on adverse sex ratios or gender imbalance until now has primarily focussed on the identification, patterns and...
Mumbai : Words like democracy and patriotism have lost their significance in today's age, and there's a need to "retrieve" them, says National Award winning filmmaker Saeed Akhtar Mirza. Known for pushing the bar for parallel cinema with movies like "Mohan Joshi Hazir...
By Bhavana Akella, Title: Koi Good News?; Author: Zarreen Khan; Publisher: Harper Collins; Pages: 384; Price: Rs 250 The uncomfortable question "are you pregnant?" is faced by most women within months of being married -- often a result of societal expectations which...
Chicago : A new order of leadership has emerged around the world which is "transient" in nature and dependent on "the issues of the day", a just-published book edited by a leading Indian American expert in reliability engineering, says. "There may still exist leaders...
By Tarun Basu, Book: The Psychological Impact of the Partition of India; Editors: Sanjeev Jain and Alok Sarin; Publisher: Sage; Price: Rs 850; Pages: 241 In a few weeks, India and Pakistan will commemorate the 71st anniversary of the Partition of the subcontinent with...