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Book Review | How books transform lives

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 1:52 PM IST

Rajens family business was in the hosiery trade in Calcutta (Kolkata). His granduncle D. Mehra had been introduced to the family business at an early age and was quite adept at selling hosiery, setting up shop at a pavement outside Kolkatas iconic New Market. DC Image

Book Review | How a hosiery salesman launched India's first indie...

Rajen had already moved to Delhi a decade earlier to establish Rupa's branch

25 Feb 2024 12:57 PM IST

Cover photo of The Book Beautiful A Memoir of Collecting Rare and Fine Books by Pradeep Sebastian. (Photo by arrangement)

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

Can we be treated to a display and exhibition of Pradeep's collection?

2 April 2023 12:52 AM IST

Sculpture of toastmaster. (By Arrangement)

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)

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)

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)

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 6:48 PM IST

Cover Image od Maurice Leblancs book Arsene Lupin Gentleman Burglar (Twitter)

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)

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 9:27 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 Image

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 8:26 AM IST

The book is a virtual tour de force of book history, of legendary booksellers and pedlars, of marginalia and scribblings which have a history of their own, of comfort books, of book collectors and libraries, of bookselling histories even amidst adversity in Paris, Venice and England and, above all, of reading.

That Aladdin's cave' feeling

The book is a testament to the power and to the joy of reading

31 Jan 2021 12:14 AM IST

E-books had certainly existed before the Kindle and other devices for they were an alternate form of publishing and for publishers, certain genres of publishing required the e-book format and now technology became an enabler. (Photo: Facebook screengrab, Representational)

A blast from the past can bring people together

It later transpired that he had attended the same school though in a different section of the same class.

6 March 2020 2:53 AM IST