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Zakir Hussain : A Life in Music : In conversation with Nasreen Munni Kabir
Zakir Hussain : A Life in Music : In conversation with Nasreen Munni Kabir captures Ustad Zakir Hussain the private man as much as the elite global musician. It is a conversation based book which is the fruit of interviews Nasreen Munni Kabir conduc…
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Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories Vol. II
Khushwant Singh Selects Best Indian Short Stories-Vol.II is a bunch of 24 short stories by Indian writers compiled by the legendary literary Sardar. With Khushwant Singh, humour and sarcasm go hand in hand and this book lives up to that reputation. …
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When A Crocodile Eats The Sun by Peter Godwin
The reasons for picking up this book are two. First, I have always been curious about the lives of the White Africans (an oxymoron I realized later). Second, the passing away of Heath Streak, my favourite Zimbabwean cricketer, in September 2023, rek…
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Grandma’s bag of stories by Sudha Murthy
What better way to laze around on a rainy Sunday morning than to pick up a book on grandma's stories and relieve those childhood days. A family member had bought it and was lying in the corner of the bookshelf. As I spotted it I decided to take …
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Wake Up, Life is Calling by Preeti Shenoy
Preeti Shenoy's book Wake Up, Life Is Calling stuns the reader into silence as one turns the last page over and the author's words sink in gradually.
The book, a narration of a girl's struggle with mental illness and depression is very re…
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How to be a Writer by Ruskin Bond
The most compelling reason to write is a desire to put one's thoughts into words. People may write for a variety of reasons, both commercial and non-commercial, but the basic desire to put thoughts into paper is what drives a person foremost.
Bon…
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Glimpses of Bengal by Rabindranath Tagore
Through these letters written over a decade, an eloquent Tagore observes nature with its minute details making him ponder over deeper meanings of life and universe. Reflections on random thoughts and incidents shed light on the philosophical side of…
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Spell Of The Flying Foxes by Sylvia Dyer
"Spell of The Flying Foxes" by Sylvia Dyer is the family saga of an Anglo-Indian family encompassing four generations. Although Anglo-Indians, generally speaking, are an urban community but this family lived in a rural plantation estate fo…
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Selected Stories of Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore has wider acclaim as a poet and novelist but he was no less a master storyteller and these dozen stories are ample proof of it. This book shows the power that storytelling once had on children and is still a wonderful medium in times of smart…
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The Goat, The Sofa & Mr. Swami by R Chandrasekhar
One wouldn't expect a man who studied at the Delhi School of Economics and traded in commodities and derivatives for a living could write a book replete with humour and witty one liners!This is what R Chandrasekhar has done in "The goat, th…
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Babu Bangladesh by Numair Atif Choudhury
Babu Bangladesh by Numair Atif Choudhury radiates with the author’s intelligence.
The novel traces the journey from birth till disappearance of Babu Abdul Majumdar from Tangail near Dhaka, a political luminary with a mysterious image. Babu’s birth an…
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