5 Personal Essays Compilations By Women
Personal Essays by Women There is something about personal essays and memoirs that reel me in. The glimpse into the life of another, peering through the glass of the layers…
Missing A Novel by Sumana Roy – Book Review
Missing is the second book by Sumana Roy. Last year I had read her ‘How I became a tree’ and simply loved it. The book was mentioned in the best…
Mind Full to Mindful: Zen Wisdom from A Monk’s Bowl by Om Swami
During my virtual wanderings, I stumbled upon a Video by Om Swami. He looked too young to be a Swami. He spoke softly but with a heavy accent in English…
Keepers of the Kalachakra by Ashwin Sanghi
Keepers of the Kalachakra takes you exactly where Ashwin Sanghi is expert at taking you – the intersection of religion, philosophy, politics, society. He mixes the facts from all around…
Adi Shankaracharya: Hinduism’s Greatest Thinker by Pavan K Varma
Adi Shankaracharya – Why did none of my textbooks ever thought me about this? This is the first question that comes to your mind when you hold this book in…
Globetrotting for Love & Other Stories from Sakhalin Island by Ajay Kamalakaran
I had never heard of Sakhalin Islands until I received the email from Ajay Kamalakaran, the author of Globetrotting for Love & Other Stories from Sakhalin Island, these short stories…
Rama and Ayodhya by Meenakshi Jain
For last 30 odd years, we know of Rama and Ayodhya through the Ram Janambhoomi controversy. As a college going student, I have lived through the demolition of Babri Masjid.…
Life Among The Scorpions by Jaya Jaitly
Life Among the Scorpions are the memoirs of Jaya Jaitly. I have always known her as someone who was the force behind setting up my favorite Dilli Haat. I know…
Shoes Of The Dead by Kota Neelima
Kota Neelima is an Indian political author, a columnist and she also loves painting. She mostly writes on social issues related to women, farmers, rural people, etc. Her other writings…
Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Skin in the Game is the path-breaking book by Taleb after The Black Swan and Anti-fragile. I have all the three books, but I never got to sit and read…