By Mohammed Shafeeq, Book: The Bourbons and Begums of Bhopal; Author: Indira Iyengar; Publisher: Niyogi Books; Price: Rs 850; Pages: 234 The book is an attempt to relive the forgotten history of Bourbons, who played a key role in the development of Bhopal by serving...
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, Book: Here, There and Everywhere; Author: Sudha Murty; Publisher: Penguin; Pages: 243; Price: Rs. 250 Before you pick up a copy of "Here, There and Everywhere", do not confuse it with the famous Beatles' song. "Here, There and Everywhere" is...
By Vikas Datta, "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..." Nobody knows this better than the writers...
By Vikas Datta, Title: 101 Things I Learned in Engineering School; Author: John Kuprenas (with Matthew Frederick); Publisher: Three Rivers Press; Pages: 216; Price: Rs 499 Nature is termed the best teacher. This is not only because our existence depends on striking...
By Vikas Datta, Title: Points of Entry: Encounters at the Origin Sites of Pakistan; Author: Nadeem Farooq Paracha; Publisher: Tranquebar; Pages: 188; Price: Rs 499 In the mid-1950s, the screening of a Hollywood film in a Karachi cinema ended with the place getting...
By Mayabhushan Nagvenkar, Book: Ocean Rimmed World; Author R.N. Joe D'Cruz; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Pages: 563; Price: 575 Universally, the travails of fishermen at sea are unending. Written originally in Tamil, and translated into English by G. Geetha,...
By Vikas Datta, Title: Tanks: 100 Years of Evolution; Author: Richard Ogorkiewicz; Publisher: Osprey Publishing; Pages: 392; Price: Rs 499 Their looming profile and bristling armaments make them the most easily identifiable piece of military hardware. But tanks, which...
By Saket Suman, Book: Conceptualising Man and Society; Author: Pradip Kumar Bose; Publisher: Orient BlackSwan; Pages: 162; Price: Rs 595 What is a man's relation to the society in which he lives and how much of this goes into shaping the larger perspectives of...
By Vikas Datta, Title: Smoke And Ashes; Author: Abir Mukherjee; Publisher: Harvill Secker/Penguin Random House; Pages: 352; Price: Rs 599 Its foundations already shaken by Jallianwala Bagh, the British Raj now faces a new type of freedom struggle -- one utilising the...
By Kushagra Dixit, Book: The Climate Solution; Author: Mridula Ramesh; Publisher: Hachette India; Pages: 295; Price: Rs 550 Mridula Ramesh's new book "The Climate Solution" presents a plethora of information, facts, figures and data on climate change in the context of...