Press Release: Launch of “Bibliobibuli” my column on Times of India

19 03 , 2018 No Comments
From March 2018, I will be contributing blog posts to Times of India. The column is called “Bibliobibuli“.  Bibliobibuli means “to be drunk on books”.
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Panel on “The Business of Books: Is there a Gender Gap in Publishing?”

13 03 , 2018 No Comments
( Update: An expanded version of this blog post was published by Times of India on their website on 16 March 2018.) To celebrate Women’s
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A.J. Finn’s “The Woman in the Window”

13 03 , 2018 No Comments
[bwwpp_book sku=’97800626784160000000′]  A. J. Finn’s debut psychological thriller The Woman in the Window is about child psychologist Anna Fox who has a bad case of agoraphobia. Confined to
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“With the End in Mind: Dying, Death and Wisdom in an Age of Denial” by Kathryn Mannix

13 03 , 2018 No Comments
Bereaved people, even those who have witnessed the apparently peaceful death of a loved one, ofen need to tell their story repeatedly, and that is
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Nazia Erum’s “Mothering a Muslim”

11 03 , 2018 No Comments
The azan was an alarm clock for parents, a curfew to get back home for us kids, a segue into night after a cluttered day
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Elizabeth Laird’s “Welcome to Nowhere”

11 03 , 2018 No Comments
Elizabeth Laird’s Welcome to Nowhere has been justifiably longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie 2018. It is about  twelve-year-old Omar who has to flee Syria soon after the
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“The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation” by Ravish Kumar

11 03 , 2018 2 Comments
The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation by renowned journalist Ravish Kumar is a collection of his essays on the state of the nation
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Romila Thapar “Indian Cultures as Heritage: Contemporary Pasts”

11 03 , 2018 No Comments
Renowned historian Romila Thapar has recently published an extremely relevant Indian Cultures as Heritage: Contemporary Pasts.  Her premise is how the centuries texts and monuments are
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Ruskin Bond “Till the Clouds Roll by”

08 03 , 2018 No Comments
The following is an extract from Ruskin Bond’s delicious new book Till the Clouds Roll By. It is a gently told, haunting memoir of his childhood,
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C. V. Raman: An illustrated story of a life

28 02 , 2018 No Comments
28 February is celebrated as National Science Day in India to commemorate the  discovery of scattered lighting or better known as “Raman Effect” named after
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