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Stick to your individuality: Sanil Sachar

Young author and entrepreneur sanil sachar’s book The Dark Side of Light blends romance, comedy, murder and...

28 Jun 2016 10:48 PM IST

Textbook of lost memories

Textbook of lost memories

Once upon a time, “I work in advertising” as an answer to “What do you do ” drew blank looks....

25 Jun 2016 10:22 PM IST

A whodunnit in tinsel town

A whodunnit in tinsel town

Thrillers have a huge appeal and when you combine the genre of a thriller with Bollywood, it’s a winning...

25 Jun 2016 10:20 PM IST

Memoirs of a true blue Bengalee

Memoirs of a true blue Bengalee

Sir Surendranath Banerjea (1848-1925), a foremost political leader of Bengal, dedicated his life to opposing colonialism...

25 Jun 2016 10:16 PM IST

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The four aims of human life

Six years after his Central and Kerala Sahitya Akademi award-winning book Manushyanu Oru Aamukham was first published,...

21 Jun 2016 10:16 PM IST

Veteran playwright Simon Choa-Johnston heeded his intuition and followed the little white pebbles that led him to family history

Tracing the roots of a family tree

People keep referring to The House of Wives as his first novel, but it is not. Veteran playwright Simon Choa-Johnston...

21 Jun 2016 10:14 PM IST

Books to cheat the heat

Books to cheat the heat

With the temperature soaring, restricting outdoor activities in the daytime, children have loads of time on their hands...

19 Jun 2016 3:51 PM IST

Life, the way greed shapes it

Life, the way greed shapes it

I think I may once, in my youth, have been to a nightclub in Mumbai a bit like Tram 83, the one in the eponymous book by...

19 Jun 2016 12:42 AM IST

India’s Wars: A Military History, 1947-1971 By Arjun Subramaniam HarperCollins, pp. 576, Rs 559

A praiseworthy history of armed forces

Most of us who serve the nation’s flag for three or four decades are witness to or even participate in events that...

15 Jun 2016 6:30 AM IST

I am not a victim of writer’s block: Mayank Shekhar

After Bombay Talkies in 2006, film critic and journalist Mayank Shekhar took a decade’s time to come out with his...

14 Jun 2016 10:34 PM IST

Ancient Chants For Modern Living by Aatmanika Ram, Westland pp.143, Rs 187

Power of chanting

The importance of healthy living through yoga, meditation and chanting

14 Jun 2016 10:31 PM IST

The gentleman actor from another time

The gentleman actor from another time

While we tend to think of Shashi Kapoor as one of the best known film stars of his time, the fact is that he was always...

12 Jun 2016 6:20 AM IST