True leaders don’t create followers. They create more leaders, and let them shine.That’s one lesson Rishabh Shah learnt after he founded I.I.M.U.N. (India’s International Movement to Unite Nations) in 2011. Now, as the world’s largest youth-run organisation, they work with thousands of young people across 220 cities in India and over 35 countries, to put…
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History’s Angel by Anjum Hasan History’s Angel
A darkly funny, sharply observed, and deeply moving novel about the surprises and struggles of life in contemporary Delhi_____________________ ‘A beautiful novel exploring tensions in modern India’ OBSERVER‘Confirms Anjum Hasan as one of the most important writers of our time’ WILLIAM DALRYMPLEAlif is a middle-aged, mild-mannered history teacher, living in contemporary Delhi, at a time in…
Madam Commissioner: The Extraordinary Life of an Indian Police Chief
The incredible memoir from one of India’s most uncompromising police officers. Meeran Chadha Borwankar graduated from India’s National Police Academy as the sole woman of its 1981 batch. From there, she would go on to investigate a long string of sensitive and controversial cases, fighting crime together with corruption and discrimination, never compromising on her…
PDF of Taxi by Manjula Padmanabhan
PDF of Taxi by Manjula Padmanabhan In gritty, dusty Delhi, Maddy has carved a world of her own. Having left her home and high-flying job in the US, Maddy has been driving a private taxi for an all-women clientele. Dealing with difficult clients, a harridan of a landlady, and the ceaseless chaos and rage of…
PDF of Shelf Aware: A Love Affair With Books
V.R. Ferose BIBLIOPHILIA: A perfectly acceptable addiction marked by obsessive reading, aggressive book-sniffing and strategic hoarding. For as long as Ferose, a San Francisco-based techie and ‘gently mad’ bibliophile, has understood books, he has devoured them with the unmitigated enthusiasm of a toddler on a sugar rush. For him, reading has been more than a…