Book Post 41: 6- 20 July 2019

23 07 , 2019 No Comments
Book Post 41 includes some of the titles received in the past few weeks. Wherever available Amazon’s Kindle widget has been embedded in the blog
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Tuesday Reads (Vol 5), 16 July 2019

17 07 , 2019 No Comments
Dear Reader, Choosing a book or two to write about always throws me into a pother. The three mentioned in today’s post are not to
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An interview with Chitra Banerjee Divakurni about “The Forest of Enchantment”

10 07 , 2019 No Comments
Chitra Banerjee Divakurni and I first met some years ago when I had to interview her at CMYK bookstore, Mehrchand market, New Delhi. Ever since
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Tuesday Reads ( Vol 4), 9 July 2019

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Dear Reader, It is a tough choice to select the books I wish to mention in this newsletter. There is so much good literature being
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Book Post 40: 23 June – 5 July 2019

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Book Post 40 includes some of the titles received in the past few weeks. Wherever available Amazon’s Kindle widget has been embedded in the blog
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Oliver Sacks “Everything in its Place”

01 07 , 2019 No Comments
British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and author Oliver Sacks died in 2015. A huge loss to the world particularly to the world of writing
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Krupa Ge “Rivers Remember” and Manu Pillai “The Courtesan, the Mahatma & the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History”

30 06 , 2019 No Comments
Non-fiction books are the biggest sellers in the Indian book market. A testament to this fact are the number of books being commissioned. Take for
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites of India Series

29 06 , 2019 No Comments
Mapin Publishing and UNESCO have co-published a set of five picture books called UNESCO World Heritage Sites of India Series. These books have been published
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“Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point” by Gyan Prakash

26 06 , 2019 No Comments
“The Emergency” in India refers to the controversial nineteen month period from 26 June 1975 to 21 March 1977 when the prime minister Indira Gandhi
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Book Post 39: 9 – 22 June 2019

25 06 , 2019 No Comments
Book Post 39 includes some of the titles received in the past few weeks. Wherever available Amazon’s Kindle widget has been embedded in the blog
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