February 2020

Pelting stones and setting things alight When caught by the  police & left nary of any delight; “Reason?” they were asked. ‘EPOCH!’ they…

In the year 2018, Charles Mackesy, a cartoonist for the Spectator and a book illustrator for Oxford University Press, updated his Instagram account…

(Photo Credit: Crispina Kemp) When the body was fished out of the tranquil and still water, it was a godawful sight. Bloated, decomposed…

After a long hiatus with fiction in general and James Patterson in particular, I picked up “Don’t Blink”, and suffice it to say…

Rajinikanth is one of the most famous silver screen personalities in the annals of Indian cinema. He is also known for his spiritual…

In an eminently readable, superbly researched and extraordinarily crisp book, businessman, author, and climate change expert, Chris Goodall sets out a range of…

“Big Data – An Introduction” by Subu Sangameswar is exactly what the title professes the book to be. A succinct, short and simple…

Resurgent India is a sequel to Dr Bimal Jalan‘s book, Emerging India, released in 2012. Resurgent India looks to the future and identifies…

(PHOTO PROMPT © Ulrika Undén ) Capitalism always finds its way irrespective of whether it finds itself in times of wealth or woes.…

Harbouring Panglossian hopes and nurturing visions Elysian Venky led his life day dreaming and was a child to love’s paean; Until the day…