“The Longest Kiss: The Life and Times of Devika Rani” and “Maryada”

12 01 , 2021 No Comments
The Longest Kiss: The Life and Times of Devika Rani by Kishwar Desai ( Context, Westland Books), is a biography of the famous Bollywood actress,
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Anthony McGowan’s “The Truth of Things”Quartet

12 01 , 2021 No Comments
And then I heard the sound. The mad, ecstatic music of the lark. I peered into the brightness and saw the small hird straining upwards,
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“Srinivas Ramanujan: Friend of Numbers”

12 01 , 2021 No Comments
Maths, at the best of times, is a tough discipline to teach children. Primarily because it is a science with many sub-branches that are clubbed
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Merlin Sheldrake “Entangled Life”

11 01 , 2021 No Comments
Merlin Sheldrake, as per his website ( merlinsheldrake.com), is a biologist and a writer with a background in plant sciences, microbiology, ecology, and the history and
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“The Narrow Land” by Christine Dwyer Hickey

11 01 , 2021 No Comments
His wife, when she’s with him, will point something out.‘Doesn’t it make you feel proud?’ she will ask.‘Not particularly.’‘It will hang forever on a wall,
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“The Middle” by Richa Jha

11 01 , 2021 No Comments
Gorgeous, gorgeous picture book by Richa Jha ( Pickle Yolk Books) —The Middle and illustrated by Eva Ganchez Gomez . A book that empowers, teaches
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“The Big Thoughts of Little Luv” by Karan Johar

11 01 , 2021 No Comments
Bollywood filmmaker Karan Johar has written his first picture book for children — The Big Thoughts of Little Luv ( Juggernaut Books). It stems from
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“The Lost Spells” by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris

11 01 , 2021 No Comments
We gave this beauteous book to our daughter as a Christmas present. She loved it. Squealed with delight. She loves poetry. She loves painting. She
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Manorama Yearbook 2021

08 01 , 2021 No Comments
Indian students are obsessed with reading for an exam. It is one of the primary reasons for the sharp fall in leisure reading as children
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“Shimmering Spring”

08 01 , 2021 No Comments
Shimmering Spring ( Hawakal Publishers) is an interesting collection of poems and prose edited by Kiriti Sengupta. 39 contributors from around the world but mostly
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