by kiranjhanggi87 | Mar 17, 2023 | Books & ideas
When and how did you fall in love with the work of PG Wodehouse? Author Ben Schott (Courtesy the Kolkata Literary Meet) When I was a child, my father used to read to me. I remember him reading serious books like Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) and Nineteen...
by kiranjhanggi87 | Mar 17, 2023 | Books & ideas
It is a universally accepted rule that friendship is between equals. So, Seema Sirohi’s book Friends with Benefits: The India-US Story got me wondering when these two nations (poles apart in national power, political determination to enforce deterrence, world view,...
by kiranjhanggi87 | Mar 17, 2023 | Books & ideas
Historian S Irfan Habib had always admired Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1888–1958), both as a scholar of Islam and as a committed nationalist. But his understanding of Azad’s greatness deepened after he joined as the Maulana Azad Chair at the National University of...
by kiranjhanggi87 | Mar 16, 2023 | Books & ideas
An estimated 3,000 buyers of premium writing instruments visited the India Pen Show 2023 held from 17-19 February at the Nehru Centre, Mumbai. With over 40 stalls of pen exhibitors, 20 calligraphy stalls, three stalls for accessories (pen cases etc) and five “fun...
by kiranjhanggi87 | Mar 16, 2023 | Books & ideas
Reading The Haunting of Delhi City, a collection of nine short stories by true “Dilliwalas” Jatin Bhasin and Suparna Chawla Bhasin, is like being taken on a tour of the city’s eerie spots and becoming acquainted with its many tales of the supernatural. Some of these...
by kiranjhanggi87 | Mar 15, 2023 | Books & ideas
For Norman Mailer, she was the ultimate figment of every man’s desire. For Joyce Carol Oates, she was a woman who belonged to everyone but herself. For Arthur Miller, she was “a poet on a street corner trying to recite to a crowd pulling at her clothes.” For Elton...
