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Aleph to Publish Just Tigers by Edward James Corbett

Aleph to Publish Just Tigers by Edward James Corbett Just Tigers brings together all Jim Corbett’s stories about shooting tigers, many of whom were man-eaters. Taken from Man-eaters of Kumaon, The Temple Tiger and More Man-eaters of Kumaon and Jungle Lore, these fourteen stories are as fresh…

Jugaad Yatra (Book Excerpt) by Dean Nelson

Dean Nelson is an award-winning investigative journalist and foreign correspondent. He spent ten years in Delhi covering India and the South Asia region from Afghanistan to Myanmar and beyond, first for the Sunday Times and later for the Daily Telegraph. He lives in Edinburgh…

Kashmir (Book Excerpt) by Saifuddin Soz

Professor Saifuddin Soz is a former Union minister and a highly respected senior politician from Kashmir with a long and distinguished parliamentary career. An economist by training, he also has a great understanding of Kashmir’s history and culture. One of…

Great Textpectations (Book Excerpt) by Ruchi Vadhera

Ruchi Vadehra belongs to a family of writers from both sides of parentage. Writing is thus homecoming to her. She began with conceptualizing and co-editing a neighbourhood community newsletter which inspired her to take forward her zest for words, people…

Book Review: Invisible Ties by Nadya A R

Book Name: Invisible Ties Author: Nadya A R Publisher: Rupa Rating: 4.7/5 Book Blurb: As Karachi burned in the 1990s, the painfully shy Noor Kamal found refuge in an antique jade mirror stolen from Daisy, her social butterfly mother. One fateful…

Book Review: Kashmir by Saifuddin Soz

Book Name: Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Story of Struggle Author: Saifuddin Soz Publisher: Rupa Rating: 4.9/5 Book Blurb: In Kashmir: Glimpses of History and the Story of Struggle, one of the most prominent voices of Kashmir, Saifuddin Soz takes a passionate…

Book Review: Great Textpectations by Ruchi Vadhera

Book Name: Great Textpectations Author: Ruchi Vadhera Publisher: Rupa Rating: 3/5 Book Blurb: Amaya Kapoor is a Delhi-based intellectually inclined thirty-five-year-old single, financially independent and sexually liberated woman, who wants to open a ‘boutique bookstore’ and live life on her own terms—single…