Bloomsbury Press Release: Launch of Relentless by Yashwant Sinha
New Delhi, 15th July: Former bureaucrat and union minister, Sh. Yashwant Sinha’s autobiography was released by Hon’ble Sh. Pranab Mukherjee (former President of India) at a recently held event at … Continue reading
The Perils of Being Moderately Famous by Soha Ali Khan; reviewed by Amina Singh
At the book launch I was thoroughly enchanted by Soha ‘s candid speaking style .. she read excerpts and answered Barkha Dutt( who could have been avoided really!) rather frankly … Continue reading
Love, Africa by Jeffrey Gettleman
The biggest stories often start with a scrap of paper, a phone number and an obviously fake name…. From Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Jeffrey Gettleman, comes a memoir spanning three … Continue reading
Grandfather’s Letters by C. Anjalendran
Since the past few months, I have been yearning for the lost art of letter writing. There is a bunch of beautiful postcards in my drawer and I am saving … Continue reading
Bullets and Bylines by Shyam Bhatia
Shyam Bhatia is a foreign correspondent currently living in London. He has operated and reported out of Cairo, Beirut, Jerusalem and Washington DC. He has been the Middle East correspondent … Continue reading
THE HEAT AND DUST PROJECT, The Broke Couple’s Guide to Bharat by Devapriya Roy and Saurav Jha
One evening in an auto in Delhi, as Devapriya chats up the driver, she has a moment of epiphany. That nothing was enough anymore – not the shopping, not the … Continue reading
Looking for closure and finding it through words
Memoirs cannot be critiqued. Stories of loss reach out in their own way and the reader tends to ignore the flow, flaws and language used and gets pulled in by … Continue reading
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Much of Me Talk Pretty One Day began as essays for magazines or for the public radio program “The American Life” and then found home in this loosely autobiographical book. … Continue reading
Interview with Kenan Tribencevic, author of The Bosnia List
Q : Who was the most pathetic character you met when you went back? I thought it was Petra. KT : I’d say it was Petra too. I didn’t run … Continue reading
Letters to Sam by Daniel Gottlieb
At thirty-three, as the result of a near fatal accident, Daniel Gottlieb became a quadriplegic. He was a trained psychologist,and in his practice, met scores of people suffer, and … Continue reading
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