Name: The Nine Lives of Annie Besant - The Astonishing Story of a Victorian RebelAuthor: Clare PatersonNo. of Pages: 256Genre: Non-Fiction/BiographyPublisher: Penguin Random House IndiaPrice: Rs. 499/-Published in: 2025 How did I get it? From the publisher. THE BLURB SAYS: On Thursday, 5 April 1877, thirty-year-old Annie Besant stood trial in London for daring to …
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The African proverb goes, "It takes a village to raise a child." Until I became a mother, I never really understood the depth of this adage. In an urban family set-up like ours, where we stay hundreds of miles away from our hometowns, families, and relatives to earn a decent livelihood, where do we find …
Name: An Uncommon Love - The Early Life of Sudha and Narayana MurthyAuthor: Chitra Banerjee DivakaruniNo. of Pages: 345Genre: Non-FictionPublisher: Juggernaut BooksPrice: Rs. 799/-Published in: 2023 How did I get it? From the publisher. THE BLURB SAYS: Sudha Kulkarni was forging a career as TELCO’s first woman engineer when she met the serious, idealistic and …
Name: Failure To Make Round RotisAuthor: Mehak GoyalNo. of Pages: 199Genre: PoetryPublisher: Juggernaut BooksPrice: Rs. 399/-Published in: 2023 How did I get it? From the publisher. THE BLURB SAYS: In this powerful debut collection, Mehak Goyal writes vividly of the experiences of young Indian women today. She explores the doubt that you carry while adulting, …
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What does a home feel like? Is it where you feel safe and secure, or is it where you find solace? Is it where everything is familiar, or is it where you can be who you are? Is it where you have a corner of your own or is it where you feel like you …
April 2021. Everyday, my country, India, is touching new heights in the number of Covid19 cases. Every day, more and more people are dying. Every day, we are hearing that someone we know has been infected. After one year, we are back in square one, that too a grimmer one. How did we reach here? …
The Indian tricolor. Our pride. Vibrant with a message, what we are, what we can be. We are strong and courageous. Peace and truth are our virtues. We are a fertile ground, auspicious and teeming with positive growth. We are moving forward, progressive in our thoughts, actions and development. And isn't our preamble simply beautiful? …
My sister and I started writing personal journals when we were super young, less than ten years old I guess. I don't remember who pushed us towards it. It must have been either Ma or Koka, our maternal grandfather. People would gift us corporate diaries, which they had received at new years and we would …
Name: Mohini the EnchantressAuthor: Anuja ChandramouliNo. of Pages: 240Genre: Mythological fictionPublisher: Rupa Publications IndiaPrice: Rs. 295/-Published in: 2020 How did I get it? A PDF copy from the author. THE BLURB SAYS: Elusive as a fragment of a forgotten dream, fragile as a figment from fantasy, Mohini is perfection made possible. Distilled from the essence …
Someone I know closely once said to me,"A girl either struggles before her marriage or after her marriage. I think I am struggling now." She was unmarried then. And her struggles, you ask? Well, she didn't get along with her brother's wife who always accused her of things she didn't do; and the brother often …
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