by kiranjhanggi87 | Feb 8, 2023 | Books & ideas
Everyone has presumably read the Mahabharata by Vyasa in some form or the other. As it is one of India’s two major epics, the other being the Ramayana, it is virtually a karmic duty to have read it. In my view though, if we are Anglophone, we have not really read it...
by kiranjhanggi87 | Feb 7, 2023 | Books & ideas
A collection of Ruskin Bond’s favourite animal stories and personal essays, The Last Tiger includes the author’s fondest memories of nature and wildlife. Some of them hark back to his lonely childhood. Mehmoud, his friend and “jungle cook”, who had previously worked...
by kiranjhanggi87 | Feb 7, 2023 | Books & ideas
India became free of British rule on 15 August 1947. But this independence came with the terrible price of Partition. A new nation state called Pakistan was carved out of India. This division affected the lives of millions of people who because of decisions made by...
by kiranjhanggi87 | Feb 5, 2023 | Books & ideas
THE STRUGGLE FOR A DECENT POLITICS: On “Liberal” as an Adjective
Author: Michael Walzer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages: 176
Price: $30
We seem unable to live without the...
by kiranjhanggi87 | Feb 4, 2023 | Books & ideas
Dear Reader, My book club is reading a book about a boy who runs away to a library. It’s about art and trauma and what it is to be “normal”. And how libraries are magic gateways to feeling better. I think I’ve always known this. In my school holidays, I spent hours...
by kiranjhanggi87 | Feb 3, 2023 | Books & ideas
This week’s list of interesting reads includes a book on Lata Mangeshkar, Keigo Higashino’s latest crime thriller, and a volume that traces the history of India’s reservation policy Source link