In this radical and ingenious book, forecaster and researcher James Wallman identifies the one scourge that is plaguing the homes and minds of people all over the world today, before proffering a range of innovative solutions to destroy this specter. The problem is "clutter" - physical clutter as opposed to mental or psychological clutter. However, … Continue reading Stuffocation: Living More with Less

If you intend your work to sell 40 million copies, get translated into multiple languages and even after years of its publication, continue to be the talk of many a town, it better be good. Paula Hawkins’ book is just that – and more! “The Girl On The Train” (“the book”) is not just good, … Continue reading The Girl on the Train

Dean Koontz starts off like a sleek and racy Shanghai Maglev, loses momentum in between but still maintaining the look and feel of a Shinkansen, before finally losing steam and sputtering to a huffing and puffing halt like a lumbering freight train. Odd Thomas seeking solace and serenity from a troubled mind, find himself in … Continue reading Brother Odd

One of the finest journalists of our times regales us with a power packed, fast paced, flowing narrative chronicling the topical events to have defined the course of English politics over the last half century. Ranging from the hubris of Thatcher to the ungainly occurrences leading to Brexit, Mr.Philip Webster lays bare before us an … Continue reading Inside Story: Politics, Intrigue and Treachery from Thatcher to Brexit

The recent imposition of trade tariffs by an obstinate Trump administration and the reciprocating adverse measures announced by his Mexican and Canadian counterparts (with the EU sure to soon follow suit) has not only triggered a global concern about an impending trade war but has also set off a panic whose potential backlash could be … Continue reading You’re More Powerful than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change

"No is Not Enough" is, in a nutshell, a powerful primer that strives to bolster the intellectual, social, civic and cultural consciousness of the world in general, and America in particular in the face of the recent upsurge in xenophobic, racial and dangerous regimes. The bend of the moral arc has deviated toward uncharted and … Continue reading No Is Not Enough: Defeating the New Shock Politics

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 'A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain', is a remarkable collection of short stories by Robert Olen Butler. The stories are in the voices of people from Vietnam who in the aftermath of the carnage wreaked by the infamous Vietnam War, find solace in the vast expanse of … Continue reading A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain

For the typical Indian, cricket is the metaphor that signifies the machinations of everyday life; a metaphysical avenue for compensating personal and professional inadequacies and more than anything else a magnet whose inescapable lure may, at the most be resisted but never overcome. Cricket is escapism; cricket is assurance; cricket is the all-encompassing panacea that … Continue reading ELEVEN GODS AND A BILLION INDIANS: THE ON AND OFF FIELD STORY OF CRICKET IN INDIA AND BEYOND