Chandigarh is definitely growing in terms of bookstores! A new one came to the city in the form of Books & Beyond, and a short while ago the Oxford Bookstore debuted in the city.
I had seen cartons of books at the DLF City Centre in IT Park, when Jaspreet, Shaan and I had […]
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A new book, A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century, by Upinder Singh, was released on August 5, at Delhi, and it was my proud privilege to be there for the occasion. This is a very well-written book which is equally well produced, with […]
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Salman Rushdie is always in the news and it took Midnight’s Children to propel him into the dizzying heights of literary stardom, and to earn him Booker immortality . There is no doubt that Rushdie is a difficult author to read, for the persistent, the rewards are great. Every reader has his or […]
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Singapore—the city state has impressed me every time that I visited it—three times in the last few years. I am impressed with the cleanliness, orderliness, strong discipline and work ethic of this Asian tiger that transformed itself since World War II.
My first memory of Singapore dates back to accounts heard from my […]
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The book Guru Nanak: His Life and Teachings was presented to over 20 elected representatives of the U.S. Congress on June 13, 2008, at Washington DC.
The Congressmen had come together for the gathered for the Sikh American Heritage Dinner event organised at an the hearing room of the Dirksen Senate Building of the US Capitol […]
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Make no mistake about it, Chetan Bhagat is churning out bestsellers regularly. This banker who is also the largest selling novelist in India, has hit the right note with the young Indian and he has a hat trick of successes to prove that point.
Chetan has not allowed the adulation of millions to go to his […]
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When I saw a copy of Lord Jeffery Archer’s A Prisoner of Birth, I knew that I had a long night ahead of him. I have read all his books, and that fact that they are in the 400-page range is never a deterrent. Please click here to read my review of this book. In […]
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The legendary photographer Ragu Rai spent over two hours explaining his photographs and talking about his life and works when I visited Delhi last month. I had gone 250 kilometres just to meet him and see his work; he had the National Gallery of Modern Art opened up just for me!
This is the first time […]
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We all know that what we post on the Internet is not private. We post it to share information with others. We all had no idea about who Ms Ashley Alexandra Dupre was, but now the lady who brought down the New York Governor, Mr Eliot Spitzer, is well-known because of the information that she […]
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A sweet book by a sweet person who is also a politician. Sounds too good to be true? You must realise that there are Governors and then, there are Governors.
Internationally, Eliot Spitzer, Governor of New York, is hogging headlines because his life did not quite turn out to be an open book, and […]
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