Category: Book review

by Dimple Jangda Did you know your physical, mental and emotional well-being depends on your gut health? The healthier your gut, the better you are! With the gut as a central axis of vigour, health coach Dimple Jangda has helped people all over the world recover from chronic diseases through a powerful combination of ancient Ayurvedic…

Political Hinduism was once considered a sort of fringe ideology, shadowy and even misunderstood. Its ideas and narratives seemed, in popular discourse, to lack analytical rigour and were easily dismissed.But history shows that political Hinduism as an intellectual idea was a pioneering theme in India’s nationhood. In fact, it precedes the Indian republic and has…

Marathi Edition  by Gulzar (Author), Shanta Shelke (Author) Triveni’ a confluence of three rivers, these poems are unique in their style. No one has ever tried this form. Guljar is the first to do so. The first two lines of each of his poem meet each other giving complete meaning to the poem, but the third line? It secretly meets…

by Gurcharan Das (Author)  Another Sort of Freedom is a funny, moving and honest memoir of a man’s struggle to break free from expectations. Gurcharan Das was born in Lyallpur, Punjab, during World War II, when Hitler, Churchill and Hirohito were bashing everyone around. His mother noted in her diary, ‘This is a restless baby.’ By age two…

by Jhumpa Lahiri (Author, Translator), Todd Portnowitz The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times best seller Unaccustomed Earth • Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories “A delectable, sun-washed treat . . . the…