Premchand ki khaniya, Ekada, Westland Books

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]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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