15 Reasons Why Sports Stories Matter and Resonate With Us!
Do you remember the last time you were watching or reading a sports drama? Do you remember the climactic moments, those slo-mo, intensely detailed, nail-biting moments that shall be the defining moment in our protagonist(s)’s journey? But why are we so attracted to sports stories? Aren’t they essentially the same? Aren’t they elementally either the […]
Dead in Banaras by Ravi Nandan Singh: A Journey Of Life’s Last Guest In The Oldest City Of The World
Rahul Vishnoi reviews Dead in Banaras: An Ethnography of Funeral Travelling by Ravi Nandan Singh (published by Oxford University Press, 2022). Dead in Banaras by Ravi Nandan Singh stalks death. From a corner of life, it follows the dreaded visitor as soon as it captures life, extinguishes it, and turns a person into a ‘body’. […]
Rubbing A Star on Paper in Manoj Bajpayee: The Definitive Biography by Piyush Pandey
Rahul Vishnoi reviews Manoj Bajpayee: The Definitive Biography by Piyush Pandey (published by Penguin Ebury Press, 2024). What would you get if you rub a star on paper? A celestial glow, what else? Manoj Bajpayee, the original king of 90s alternate cinema, the ‘Mumbai-ka-king-kaun’ star, has reinvented himself time and again. For the Netfliz-Prime generation, […]
From Pennywise to Poundfoolish: Review of The Dirty Dozen by N. Sundaresha Subramanian
Rahul Vishnoi reviews The Dirty Dozen by N. Sundaresha Subramanian (published by Pan Macmillan India, 2024). The Dirty Dozen serves as an unsavoury reminder that there are people, even in the higher echelons, who manage to trick the system, sometimes by remaining behind the scenes and pulling the strings and sometimes by sheer audacity and […]
Ruskin Bond’s The Hill of Enchantment Review: The Fascinating Journey of a 90-Year-Old Author
Rahul Vishnoi reviews The Hill of Enchantment by Ruskin Bond (published by Aleph Book Company, 2024). Recently, it was Ruskin Bond’s 90th birthday. Now a nonagenarian, at least three of his books were published on this occasion by three separate publishers. How and when exactly did Bond become so famous and loved by kids and […]
Deep Dive into the City with Paulami Sengupta’s Maximum Love in Patel Nagar
Elsa Mathews reviews Maximum Love in Patel Nagar by Paulami Sengupta (published by Red River, 2023). There are not many places in a city where a woman can hide. But in Maximum Love in Patel Nagar, Paulami Sengupta negotiates her way through the middle-class quartier of Patel Nagar in West Delhi. She finds many nooks […]
A Will to Kill by RV Raman Review: A Gripping Whodunnit in the Tradition of Agatha Christie
Sneha Pathak reviews A Will to Kill by RV Raman (published by HarperCollins India, 2019). RV Raman’s A Will to Kill is a mystery written in the tradition of whodunnit novels, sure to remind mystery aficionados of Agatha Christie’s stories. The first book in his Harith Athreya series, consisting of four books (so far) featuring […]
Ruskin Bond’s How to be Happy Review: A Guide to Happiness
Neha Kirpal reviews How to be Happy by Ruskin Bond (published by HarperCollins India, 2024). One of India’s most well-known writers, Landour-based Ruskin Bond’s latest book, How to be Happy, was released this summer as he turned 90. The book is full of gentle words of advice and pearls of wisdom from someone whose own […]
Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka Review- A Cricket Novel Like No Other
Amritesh Mukherjee reviews Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka (published by Penguin Random House India, 2011). There’s a dearth of cricket stories in the market. Biographies and autobiographies you’ll find many in the market, but great cricket novels? Hardly. That’s why a book like Chinaman by Shehan Karunatilaka, where cricket drives the […]
11 Best Indian Chess Books for Every Chess Fan
If you’ve ever searched for it, you’d quickly notice the scarcity of Indian chess books. Besides Vishwanathan Anand’s excellent memoir, they are rarer to find than an underpromotion to a bishop. Don’t worry; we have some great Indian chess books for every chess lover, whether you play the game or follow it. These books range […]
