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It’s funny how a book can make you blush, nod, laugh, and quietly sigh — all within a few pages. That’s what happened to me with Shobhaa Dé’s The Sensual Self: Explorations of Love, Sex & Romance. I didn’t expect to be both entertained and disarmed. I didn’t expect to find bits of my own unspoken emotions mirrored between her razor-sharp sentences. And yet, here I was, reading a book that dares to...
It began with the smell of old paper. That faint, woody fragrance that seeps into your skin when you hold a well-loved book — the kind of scent that tells you you’re home. The Bookseller of Mogga by Anand Suspi transported me straight into that world — of dusty shelves, sunlight filtering through slatted windows, and conversations that begin not with “How are you?” but with “Have you read this one...
There are books that talk about business — graphs, goals, growth curves — and then there are books that breathe. Gateway to Africa by Prateek Suri does the latter. It doesn’t read like a management lecture; it feels like a long evening conversation with a friend who’s seen failure up close, tasted dust and triumph, and still believes that tomorrow is worth fighting for.When I first picked it up, I...
There are stories that roar with grandeur, and there are stories that whisper eternal truths. The Story of Mahabharata: Part 3 by Kaushal Kishore somehow does both. I began reading it late one night — rain murmuring against the window, a faint aroma of chai lingering — and within minutes, I was no longer in my room but standing on the dusty plains of Kurukshetra. The conch shells had sounded, the ...
There’s a quiet power in watching two lives unfold in parallel — ambitious, demanding, and yet beautifully intertwined. Growing Together Without Growing Apart: An Inspiring Journey of Service, Sacrifice, and Shared Dreams by Lieutenant Generals Rajeev and Dr. Madhuri Kanitkar is that story, told with honesty, warmth, and a rare intimacy. Co-authored by the couple themselves, the memoir goes beyond...
There’s a strange kind of silence that follows a good martial arts fight — that heartbeat of stillness between power and peace. Reading Under the Dragon’s Shadow by D.G. Schulman felt exactly like living inside that moment. The adrenaline, the grit, the grace — and then the quiet introspection that lingers after the final blow.I’ll admit, when I picked this one up, I expected a straightforward mar...
Imagine walking into a college where there are no classrooms, no exams, no professors with tweed jackets and tired eyes. Instead, you’re handed challenges that strip you bare — not your clothes, but your carefully stitched identities, your polished masks, your curated self. That’s the premise of Ugesh Sarcar’s What Matters (Volume One: Credibility) — a book that doesn’t politely ask for your atten...
The first time I picked up The Sex Book: A Joyful Journey of Self-Discovery by Leeza Mangaldas, I felt like I was sneaking chocolate from the fridge at midnight — part thrill, part guilt, part curiosity. Growing up in India, even whispering the word “sex” was enough to earn raised eyebrows, let alone reading a book titled so boldly. But within the first few pages, I realized this wasn’t a scandalo...
The first time I cracked open The Carpenter by Jon Gordon, I didn’t expect to be sitting with my coffee and suddenly wondering about the scaffolding of my own life. Not the walls and roofs we so carefully patch and polish for the world to see, but the beams underneath — the ones made of habits, fears, and, sometimes, love. It’s a slim book, deceptively slim, that pretends to be a simple fable but ...
Sameer Gudhate Presents the Book Review of Tales from the Absurd by Swati BhattacharyyaThe first time I picked up Tales from the Absurd, I half-expected a neat little box of stories where everything had its place, logic tucked in like napkins at a dinner table. But this book? It flipped the table. It asked logic to take a stroll, shut the door, and invited in the wild cousins of imagination — the ...
