Premchand ki khaniya, Ekada, Westland Books

31 07 , 2025 No Comments
Today is Premchand’s 145th birth anniversary. He was born on 31 July 1880. Dhanpat Rai Srivastava or Munshi Premchand as he was known is famous
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Milton’s Paradise Lost (Unabridged) – Narrated by Anton Lesser [CD1]

30 07 , 2025 No Comments
I found this referenced on the social media. It is one of my favourite books. I cannot find CD2 narrated online. If anyone finds the
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The Booker Prize 2025 longlist

29 07 , 2025 No Comments
The full Booker Prize 2025 longlist, including author nationality, is: – Love Forms (Faber) by Claire Adam (Trinidadian) – The South (4th Estate) by Tash
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“Rules to Rule: Ancient History, Modern Lessons” by Prashant Anand

28 07 , 2025 No Comments
Increasingly the book market has many books that heark upon the past leaders and intellectuals to glean learnings from them. Not every modern reader has
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“Pitch: How to Captivate and Convince Any Audience on the Planet” by Danny Fontaine

28 07 , 2025 No Comments
Sensible advice in this book that is more like a manual. Although, given the speed age that we live in, would there be many takers
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“Buffett & Munger Unscripted” by Alexis W. Morris

28 07 , 2025 No Comments
The twenty-first century will probably go down in history as not just as the second Industrial Revolution but also the Age of Capitalism. It is
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Love vs Arranged Marriage

28 07 , 2025 No Comments
In August 2007, I got married. India Today asked for an article. I forget why it had been commissioned. Nor does the original link seem
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“Abundant Sense: Rahim – Selected Dohas” by Chandan Sinha

27 07 , 2025 No Comments
While reading Abundant Sense, I realised how many of Rahim’s doha’s were familiar. These were part of our Hindi curriculum in middle school. We had
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“One In a Billion: Becoming India’s First Master of Wine” by Sonal C. Holland

27 07 , 2025 No Comments
Who would have guessed that it is possible for an Indian woman to defy all odds to become India’s first master of wine. One in
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“A Man For All Seasons: The Life Of K.M. Panikkar” by Narayani Basu

27 07 , 2025 No Comments
A Man for All Seasons (published by Westland Books) has been a few years in the making. Biographies are not easy to write, especially if
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