Book Review Dal - Chawal
A close friend of mine gifted me this book before leaving for greener pastures in Canada. Dal – Chawal is a unique book on Indian cookery written by Satarupa Banerjee, published by Vasan...
View ArticleObituary: Sabina Sehgal Saikia
Sabina Sehgal Saikia was a food writer who had been with the Times of India group for over 17 years who at the time of her untimely demise had risen to Consulting Editor at the publication. She died in...
View ArticleBook Review: Imagining India - Nandan Nilekani
Among the leaders and pioneers of the much feted and praised IT company, Infosys, Nandan Nilekani has given a window into his thought processes in this book. A reader will have to acknowledge the...
View ArticleBook Review: Vishnu's Crowded Temple: India Since the Great Rebellion by...
Having liked Maria Misra’s first book on managing agencies so much, I got hold of her second and much more recent one, a couple of weeks ago. In Vishnu’s Crowded Temple, Misra undertakes the...
View ArticleBook Review : The Jewel of Medina
I had heard of the controversy surrounding "The Jewel of Medina" a couple of months ago, but it hadn't really inspired me to go out and buy the book immediately. Of course there was the other matter of...
View ArticleBook Review Comdex : Computer Course Kit - Windows Vista with Office 2007
The Comdex - Computer Course Kit - Windows Vista with Office 2007 written by Vikas Gupta costs 229INR with the CD. Vikas Gupta has earlier co-authored books for Wiley, McGraw Hill and IDG. This book,...
View ArticleA Landmark Love Story
The Landmark bookstore opens its doors on 23rd January 2009. Landmark has been shut these past three months after a fire broke out in Infinity Mall where it is housed, causing much damage to...
View ArticleBook Review: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From...
Jonah Goldberg is a conservative columnist and an editor at National Review. In his book Liberal Facism, Goldberg makes a very interesting case for the proposition that liberals are a lot more fascist...
View ArticleBook Review: Down Memory Lane by Ravi Govender
My friend Ravi Naicker is a poet and a teacher in Umzinto, Kwa Zulu Natal. I told him about my desire to publish a book of South African poets that would focus on the politics of New South Africa.He...
View ArticleBook Review: The Next Christendom
What does the future hold for Christianity? Many books have been written which make a case that secular forces will instigate Christianity to grow to be more open-minded and less literal. Such...
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