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Tagore converted his writings into paintings: Scholars

Tagore's creative works were sometimes converted to drawings.

Just Out

War hero John Puller is known to be the top investigator in the US Army’s CID. So when a family with military connections

‘Roark is my hero for life’

I believe human beings don’t change overnight after reading a book. Change is a slow process. But one book that did change my life is Gosho.

Book review: Dolls’ Wedding and Other Stories

When I got Chaso’s Dolls’ Wedding and Other Stories, I did what any self-respecting reviewer would do.

Double vision

Pavithra K. Mehta’s much-appreciated documentary film, Infinite Vision, has been turned into a best-selling book.

Modern kids’ ‘short attention span’ blamed for inability to read Dickens

Charles Dickens’ acclaimed biographer Claire Tomalin has claimed that today’s children do not have the required attention span.

‘Without cultural roots we are photocopies’

Pavan K. Varma strides the worlds of literature and bureaucracy with consummate ease.

World at risk without climate justice

Praful Bidwai’s book The Politics of Climate Change and the Global Crisis: Mortgaging Our Future is written at a time of deep diplomatic despondency.

Steve Jobs' bio bestseller again

Late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs' biography continues to lead the non-fiction section.

‘Reading Osho is relaxing’

I usually carry my books on the shoots and currently I am reading The Compassionate Buddha by Anandmurti Gurumaa.