resplendent Goddess when you become we will worship you with flowers, the best roses we shall decree lotuses, pink-gold, fifty-five petals no less incense mesmerising intoxicating only the pure can visit they must fast a whole day and half pine,…
Book Name: Why I Am A Hindu Author: Shashi Tharoor Publisher: Aleph Rating: 4.7/5 Book Blurb: In Why I Am a Hindu, one of India’s finest public intellectuals gives us a profound book about one of the world’s oldest and greatest religions.…
Book Name: Strangers No More Author: Sanjoy Hazarika Publisher: Aleph Rating: 4.6/5 Book Blurb: Over twenty years ago, Sanjoy Hazarika’s first book on the Northeast, Strangers of the Mist, was published to immediate acclaim. Hailed as an exciting, path-breaking narrative…
Book Name: Digital VS Human Author: Richard Watson Publisher: Amaryllis Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: This is one book you need to read to prepare for the world of tomorrow. On most measures that matter, we’ve never had it so good. Physically, life…
Book Name: A Broken Sun Author: Aditya Iyengar Publisher: Rupa Rating: 3.5/5 Book Blurb: In the bloody aftermath of the thirteenth day of the Kurukshetra War, the Pandavas and Kauravas look to avenge their losses. In the Pandava army, a grief-stricken Arjuna…
Keshava, A Magnificent Obsession are folklores associated with the legend of Lord Krishna. This is a book of all whom Krishna loved and imbibed life into, be it the Tulsi plant, the flute, the tree where he romanced with his beloved…
Rummaging through their dead parents’ letters, Manjula, a second-generation Indian-American, and her sister Nilima make a startling discovery—their mother, an immigrant scientist from India to America in the 1940s, had had a twin sister with whom she had been estranged…
Book Name: Please Let Me Go Authors: Please Let Me Go by Caitlin Spencer with Linda Watson-Brown Publisher: Amaryllis Rating: 3.5/5 Book Blurb: From the age of 14, Caitlin was completely controlled, repeatedly raped, provided with alcohol, given drugs, sold and passed on…
Book Name: Biswin Sadi Memoirs Author: Jamil Urfi Publisher: Cinnamon Teal Rating: 3.9/5 Book Blurb: In this memoir, the author recounts his experiences of growing up in Delhi during a period of ‘Biswin Sadi’– the 20th century, when it felt like…
Book Name: When I Hit You Author: Meena Kandasamy Publisher: Juggernaut Rating: 5/5 Book Blurb: Seduced by politics, poetry and an enduring dream of building a better world together, the unnamed narrator falls in love with a university professor. Moving with him…
Book Name: A Girl Like That Author: Tanaz Bhathena Publisher: Penguin Rating: 4.5/5 Book Burb: Sixteen-year-old Zarin Wadia is many things: a bright and vivacious student, an orphan, a risk-taker. She’s also the kind of girl that parents warn their…
Book Title: Mr. Iyer Goes to War Author: Ryan Lobo Pages: 215 Publisher: Bloomsbury Rating: 3.5/5 Story in a nutshell: Beginning in an old age home located near River Ganges in the city of Varanasi, the novel follows the adventures…