Books

New York, Nov 13 (IANS) Former US president Barack Obama’s new book ‘A Promised Land’ lands a sharp left hook on Rahul Gandhi’s “nervous, uninformed quality”

BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE Destiny, as Vidya, a character in ‘Journey to a Stepwell’ notes, for women like her and Ma (her mom), “is simply a

BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE  “Not since Buddha has India so revered any man. Not since St. Francis of Assissi has any life known to history been

BY ANNIQUA RANA* Arrivals and Departures: Journeys in Poems is a deep and relevant introduction to Reena Kapoor as a poet.  For over a decade,

BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE One of my fondest memories from my Engineering days is a group of us friends, who had read and memorized every little

BY VISHNU MAKHIJANI  New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) At a time of social distancing forced by the coronavirus pandemic, it is becoming increasingly difficult to cope

REVIEWED BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE A mother is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness, quotes the wise philosopher Khalil

New Delhi, Aug 6 (IANS) Its been a “long and difficult” journey spread over seven years and eight drafts, says author Avni Doshi, whose novel “Burnt

New York, NY, July 28, 2020: New York resident writer-editor and data scientist set a world record when his book, “100% Life” was launched on

BY JYOTHSNA HEGDE The debut in the Winds of Fire series, Duty and Desire, penned by Atlanta’s fiction author and freelance journalist Anju Gattani, explores the conflicts of