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    Book Review | A village bookstore or hidden paradise?Books and Art
    Book Review | A village bookstore or hidden paradise?

    It’s a coincidence that as we wrote this, we also got the news of the passing away of Leonard Riggio, the former...

    25 Jan 2025 12:44 PM IST

    Book Review | Why good books are falling through the cracksBooks and Art
    Book Review | Why good books are falling through the cracks

    Previously, the aim was to enrich the cultural life of a nation, now it is merely revenue, hence the shortcut is the...

    23 Nov 2024 11:16 AM IST

    Book Review | How books transform livesBooks and Art
    Book Review | How books transform lives

    This book, originally published in German, and very well translated into English by Melody Shaw, is a story set in...

    27 July 2024 1:51 PM IST

    Book Review | How a hosiery salesman launched India’s first indie publishing giantLifestyle
    Book Review | How a hosiery salesman launched India’s first indie...

    As they say, truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Mehra set up his “shop” opposite Presidency College in Kolkata’s...

    25 Feb 2024 12:01 PM IST

    Book Review | Oh, the joy of the book hunt, the thrill of wishful contemplationLifestyle
    Book Review | Oh, the joy of the book hunt, the thrill of wishful...

    A Gentle Madness is Nicholas Basbanes’ wonderful account of the bibliophile’s eternal passion for books and...

    2 April 2023 12:50 AM IST

    Sculpture of toastmaster. (By Arrangement)Lifestyle
    Sridhar Balan | Raising a toast to the golden storytelling legacy of...

    Each toast no doubt comprised a story about the happy couple

    8 May 2022 11:41 AM IST

    Tamada, the toastmaster. (Photo credit: Sridhar Balan)Lifestyle
    Raising a toast to the golden storytelling legacy of Tbilisi

    The world book capital was an initiative started by Unesco in 2001 after the idea was mooted first in Madrid in 1995

    8 May 2022 11:13 AM IST

    Cover Image of the book Why Dont You Write Something I Might Read? Reading, Writing and Arrhythmia by Suresh Menon. (By Arrangement)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Of writers, ghostwriters and the magic of written words

    This book is the result of a sportswriter turning his lens on to literature

    17 April 2022 12:44 AM IST

    The Happiness Trail A Road Map to Success By Ramesh Venkateswaran. (Amazon)Lifestyle
    Book Review | For young souls trapped on the hedonic treadmill

    At the outset, Ramesh tells us that his book is not prescriptive or preachy nor is it a compass with a clear direction

    29 Jan 2022 6:35 PM IST

    Cover Image od Maurice Leblancs book Arsene Lupin Gentleman Burglar (Twitter)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Arsene Lupin versus Sherlock Holmes

    The history of Lupin has an uncanny similarity with that of Sherlock Holmes in the sense the character assumed a much...

    26 Dec 2021 1:46 AM IST

    The book comes with a list of questions for reading club discussions. (Photo: Amazon)Lifestyle
    Book Review | Bookseller's love story in wartime Paris shows past is...

    Fast paced, the book, though a work of fiction, has been well researched and with historical sources cited

    6 Jun 2021 9:26 AM IST

    Mr B a history buff was actually interested in finding some traces of Alexander the Greats historic march from Macedonia to Pakistan over two thousand years ago while the crew was more interested less in history and more in the sights and sounds of contemporary Peshawar. DC ImageLifestyle
    Book Review: A decent sort of madness

    The director's threat to leave Mr B and make his find his own way home, is answered by 'please do. I will walk home with...

    11 April 2021 8:40 AM IST

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