Category: Literature

VENKATESH GOVINDARAJAN Systems View of Life is a sublimely coherent book: from start to finish. It has…

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR The Booker Prize has often thrown surprises — sometimes, with good intent; sometimes,…

VENKATESH GOVINDARAJAN I just finished reading Philip Pullman’s The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ,…

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Nostradamus, or Nostramadus, step aside. Your time’s up. The creator of Dilbert —…

MASOOMA SAKRIWALA You and I, Are born to die Then why the fear Why, why,…

MASOOMA SAKRIWALA Stop fearing defeats; it is not the end Take a few more risks;…

MASOOMA SAKRIWALA A woman, as Eleanor Roosevelt, the renowned politician, diplomat, activist, and the longest-serving…

HELEN FINCH It was Mo’s birthday.  She was going to be having a party after…

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Books have a definite purpose. Hence, quite distinct perceptions, or readership outlines —…

RAJGOPAL NIDAMBOOR Arundhati Roy’s 1997-Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things [GOST], has to…