Posts from the history category.
You know those books that feel less like you’re reading and more like you’ve been dropped into another century, salt wind in your hair, bronze gleam of a spear catching the sun? That’s exactly what happened when I picked up Diomedes in Kyprios, Gregory Michael Nixon’s second volume in his Diomedeia series. I’d read enough about the Trojan War in dusty myth anthologies to think I knew the players, ...
Every once in a while, you come across a book that doesn’t just tell a story — it pulls you through time and drops you in the middle of it. That’s exactly what happened with The Diomedeia: Diomedes, the Peoples of the Sea, and the Fall of the Hittite Empire by Gregory Michael Nixon. From the first chapter, I felt as though I were standing on sun-scorched Anatolian soil, surrounded by the clash of ...
Hi! Sharing my heartfelt review of ‘The Diary of a Young Girl’ by Anne Frank on the website. Her words written in hiding during one of history’s darkest times — echo with hope and raw honesty.📖 If you’ve read it (or have been meaning to), come see what stood out to me.🔗 https://jaeeblogscom.wordpress.com/2025/07/26/sip-read-review-the-diary-of-a-young-girl-by-anne-frank/ Do share your feedback ...
There are books that whisper to your soul, and then there are those that leave behind echoes — lingering, lyrical, impossible to shake off. Madness of Waiting is one such echo. Have you ever felt the urge to learn a new language simply because a translation — no matter how brilliant — doesn’t feel enough? That’s exactly what this book did to me. It made me yearn to understand Urdu in its pure, und...
You know that feeling when history suddenly stops being a chapter in your textbook and becomes something real — alive, pulsating, almost terrifying in its truth? That’s exactly what happened to me while reading Ninety Days. I was born in the late ’70s, and the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi is a moment etched in national memory. But Anirudhya Mitra doesn’t just retell it — he takes you behind the y...
Have you ever paused mid-news bulletin — amidst reports of missile tests or defence tech breakthroughs — and wondered: Who exactly makes this possible? I did. And that curiosity found a worthy companion in Institutions That Shaped Modern India: DRDO, a book that dives deep into one of the country’s most vital, yet lesser-known institutions.Authored by Ravi Kumar Gupta, a man who spent over 35 year...
Do you remember that childhood evenings spent listening to tales from the Ramayana or Mahabharata? Stories of epic wars, hidden weapons, whispered secrets. Now imagine someone picking up one of those stories, brushing the dust off, adding a layer of science and sprinkling in some international espionage. That, in a nutshell, is The Ayodhya Alliance — Ashwin Sanghi’s latest and perhaps most ambitio...
There’s something deeply magnetic about the Indian jungle — its mysteries, its silences, and the primal thrill it awakens in us. I remember as a child, huddling under a blanket with a torch, reading jungle tales and imagining myself as the fearless explorer. So when I stumbled upon Kenneth Anderson’s hunting narratives, I knew I was in for a nostalgic yet fresh journey.Anderson, born in 1910 in Br...
Sometimes a book finds you — not the other way around. I remember picking up I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced during a quiet evening, thinking I’d flip through a few pages before bed. What I didn’t know was that this slim memoir, written by a girl not even out of primary school, would leave me sleepless and wide-eyed, grappling with questions no ten-year-old should ever have to answer.This is the ...
You know that oddly comforting feeling of slipping into a cozy armchair with a cup of chai and a murder mystery that doesn't rush, doesn’t scream for attention, but quietly charms its way into your heart? That’s The Bangalore Detectives Club in a nutshell. Think Agatha Christie meets vintage Bangalore—with a dash of turmeric.Harini Nagendra makes her fiction debut here, though she’s no stranger to...
