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(Image Credit: http://www.amazon.com) One man, a quintessential recluse. A man who having had enough of the vicissitudes of the material life ensconces himself…
(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) Contemplation is at the centre of this absorbing book. Contemplation about life and death, living and dying. Even though permeated…
(Image Credit: Alliance Publishers) With more twists and turns than one can expect from a dance floor on prom night even, the second…
(Image Credit: http://www.barnesandnoble.com) The founder of Envirosell Inc, a global research and consulting firm, and bestselling author, Paco Underhill in his new book,…
(Image Credit: routemybook.com) The late R. Mahadevan or ‘Devan’ in short, belongs to that select and gifted breed of writers capable of capturing…
(Image Credit: Routemybook.com) Aindhu Varuda Mounam (“Silence of five years) is an alluring collection of short stories ranging from the profound to the…
(Image Credit: http://www.penguin.co.uk) Writing for the online publication ‘Psyche’, Jonathan Malesic argued that the biggest bane plaguing the contemporaneous world was the element…
(Image Credit: Visal Print Trading) The now infamous 1MDB scandal that roiled Malaysia beginning 2015 and whose reverberations are felt even today represented…
(Image Credit: http://www.goodreads.com) Acknowledged by Jayakanthan himself as the favourite amongst all his works, Oru Manidhan Oru Veedu Oru Ulagam, literally translating to…
(Image Credit: penguinrandomhouse.com) The words ‘Ichigo Ichie’ in Japanese, in their rudimentary parlance literally translate to ‘what we are experiencing right now will…