“The Kathasaritsagara of Somadeva” A retelling by Meena Arora Nayak

01 08 , 2021 No Comments
I have lost track of the number of times I have tried reading various transactions of Kathasaritsagara. It becomes exhausting to read after a while
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“Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas get Ignored in an Economy built for Men” by Katrine Marcal, translated from the Swedish by Alex Fleming

01 08 , 2021 No Comments
Bestselling author Katrine Marcal’s latest offering, Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas get Ignored in an Economy built for Men ( William Collins, HarperCollins India)
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“India: A Story Through 100 Objects” by Vidya Dehejia

01 08 , 2021 No Comments
India: A Story Through 100 Objects by Vidya Dehejia ( Roli Books ) is as the title describes it. A subjective curation of select objects
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“My Life and Struggle: The Autobiography of Abdul Ghaffar Khan” by the Frontier Gandhi, translated from the Pashtu by Imtiaz Ahmad Sahibzada

01 08 , 2021 No Comments
My Life and Struggle: The Autobiography of Abdul Ghaffar Khan by the Frontier Gandhi ( Roli Books) has been translated from the Pukhto by ex-bureaucrat
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“Gender Swapped Fairy Tales” by Karrie Fransman & Jonathan Flackett

31 07 , 2021 No Comments
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman & Jonathan Plackett ( Faber & Faber) is a retelling of the fairy tales by swapping the genders
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“Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia” by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

25 07 , 2021 No Comments
It has been many, many months since I read historian Siobhan Lambert-Hurley’s Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia ( Stanford
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“Rajinikanth: A Life” by Vaasanthi

25 07 , 2021 No Comments
Rajinikanth is a superstar who rose from being a porter/coolie and a bus conductor to achieving godlike status in Tamil Nadu. He has over 150
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“Redesign the world” by Sam Pitroda

25 07 , 2021 No Comments
Entrepreneur, policymaker and telecom specialist Sam Pitroda has recently released Redesign the World: A Global Call to Action. In it he outlines his theory that
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Riad Sattouf’s “Esther’s Notebooks: Tales from my ten-year-old life” , translated by Sam Taylor

22 07 , 2021 No Comments
Award-winning French cartoonist, graphic novelist, and film director of Franco-Syrian origin, Riad Sattouf’s cartoon strips revolving around a chatty little girl called Esther’s Notebooks have
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“Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest” by Suzanne Simard

22 07 , 2021 No Comments
One of the first clues came while I was tapping into the messages that the trees were relaying back and forth through a cryptic underground
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