Kabir by Hazari Prasad Dwivedi – Hindi Book Review
Kabir is a poet I connect with the best. His simple Sakhis can say in two lines what people find it difficult to say in a thousand pages. His poetry…
Yugandhar by Shivaji Sawant – Book Review
I bought Yugandhar way back in 2003 when it first came in Hindi edition. I knew it would demand a lot of time given its 1000 odd pages and a…
Dwarka Ka Suryasta by Dinkar Joshi
I have been reading on Dwarka since the time I visited Dwarka recently. Not many books gave me any insight into the making of the city. There was one book…
My Hanuman Chalisa by Devdutt Pattanaik
My Hanuman Chalisa by Devdutt Pattanaik Hanuman Chalisa is the most commonly chanted set of verses in India. Written by Goswami Tulsidas after he wrote Ram Charita Manas - these…
Ghumakkad Swami by Rahul Sankrutyayan
Ghumakkad Swami by Rahul Sankrutyayan Ghumakkad Swami by Rahul Sankrutyayan is the story of a wandering Swami who travels across the length and breadth of North India. It is the…
Volga Se Ganga by Rahul Sankrityayan
Volga Se Ganga by Rahul Sankrityayan is an epic. It traces the human evolution from 6000 BCE to 1942 CE through a common man's eyes. It begins on the banks…
Kashi ka Assi by Kashinath Singh – Book Review
Kashi Ka Assi by Kashinath Singh is an epic novel that brings out the life and times of Assi - a neighborhood on the southernmost ghat at Varanasi. It was…
Matsyagandha by Narendra Kohli – Book Review
Narendra Kohli is a master storyteller. His forte lies in bringing out the Dwanda or dilemmas that go inside a human mind all the time. He picks up characters from…
Hidimba by Narendra Kohli – Book Review
Narendra Kohli has re-written Mahabharata as Maha Samar. That is one series that I hope to read sometime. He has also written a series on the women in Mahabharata. And…
Durgesh Nandini by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Durgesh Nandini by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay This is the first Bengali novel written way back in 1865. By none other than the author who also gave us Vande Matram -…