Plagued by an inept articulation, this much awaited autobiography turns out to be, (whether intentionally or accidentally), an exercise in futility. While Sachin's book fails to make a mark on multiple counts, the most explicit travesty is an overwhelmingly liberal usage of the vowel "I", drowning out muted references to the preferred words "us" … Continue reading Playing It My Way: My Autobiography -Sachin Tendulkar, Boria Majumdar

Author of 36 books on cricket, an inveterate memorabilia accumulator (with letters alone exceeding a whopping 6,000), founder of the Wisden Cricket Monthly and a rapacious knowledge of the game all make David Frith a phenomenon when it comes to the world of cricket. In this wonderful work, Frith recounts his unforgettable as well as … Continue reading Frith’s Encounters by David Frith

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award for 2014, this stupendous work by Atul Gawande is magnificently moving, monumentally relevant and memorably seminal considering the times we are in. While medicine has progressed beyond radical imagination extending the human life span, it has continued to grapple with a quintessential dilemma - Is prolonging a painful life … Continue reading Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

Pete Sampras - A legend with a hangdog expression calmly decimating his foes on the court with utter disdain. What is it that lies behind this poker faced demeanor and the unblinking exterior that put paid hopes to the plotting of an Agassi, the passion of a Becker and the penchant of a Safin? In … Continue reading A Champion’s Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis – Pete Sampras, Peter Bodo

  Ed Smith was a budding and talented English cricketer whose hopes for an extended international career were put paid by a freak ankle injury suffered while playing for Middlesex. Undaunted by this set back, Smith substituted a pen for his trusted willow and is currently flourishing in his second avatar as a leading writer … Continue reading Luck: What It Means and Why It Matters by Ed Smith

The unsurpassed purveyor of the satire once gain delivers in inimitable and hard hitting fashion. Writing in a style distinctly 'Vonnegut', one of America's greatest ever novelist wades into the hypocrisy of both the horrors of war and the farcical rigours of post war 'justice meting methods'. Cocking a snook at totalitarianism, fascism and banana … Continue reading Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien has carved out a niche as the unmatched pioneer of the 'legendarium'. With his best immortal epics "The Hobbit" and "The Lord Of The Rings", Tolkien has spawned the emergence of a whole new culture, or rather a counter-culture. While there cannot be many on the Planet boasting ignorance regarding the … Continue reading J.R.R. Tolkien: A Life Inspired – Wyatt North

This short collection of a few simple, practical, fun filled laced with wit and wisdom graduation speeches provides a key insight into the virtues of Kurt Vonnegut the human being, the raw talent of Kurt Vonnegut the master story teller and the intrinsic genius of Kurt Vonnegut one of our generation's most revered, respected and … Continue reading If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young by Kurt Vonnegut