An amateur’s attempt at being Michiko Kakutani!
Michael Foley is fast becoming a personal favourite. If “The Age of Absurdity” was a pleasant surprise, “Embracing The Ordinary” has been nothing…
While some autobiographies constitute an exercise in monotonous trumpeting of the self, there are some that traverse the path of introspection. However rare…
The author of the best selling “Band of Brothers” and “D-Day” comes up with yet another compelling read with “The Wild Blue”. In…
Andrea Wulf has produced a magic of absolutely dizzying and dazzling proportions with her flawless and riveting biography of the intrepid Alexander Von…
The 81 year old historian and philosopher Theodore Zeldin in a series of conversational essays, tackles head on the vicissitudes and woes faced…
Theoretical Physics and Quantum Theories do not exactly make for engrossing bed time stories. Or do they? Christophe Galfard’s avowed objective in penning…
Global Warming is a threat that is as potent as any other dreadful calamity that can be envisaged as striking Earth in the…
In the introduction to his book, Tim Lewens provides a warming assurance to the reader that a knowledge of neither Science nor Philosophy…
With the Allies closing in on the Western Front and the humongous mass of the Red Army making dangerous inroads into the Eastern…
A story so powerful that it exasperates; a plot so deep that it exhausts and a narrative so angst inducing that it literally…