Bookish

Author: Gayathri Ramprasad
Publisher: Random House India
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9788184005196
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Not a greatly written book (Ramprasad is no Rushdie) but a greatly wrought life. Not of a mighty philosopher, nor of a gifted poet, but of one unknown and born common; of a child, daughter, girl, sister, lady, wife, mother, human, conqueror of mental-illness.

Author: Anuradha Goyal
Publisher: Random House India
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9788184004922
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The Mouse Charmers glimmers with elegant intelligence. Anuradha, in this book, unravels the business specifics of twelve companies that began as digital entrepreneurships and now sail with their magnificent masts, ruling the waters of Indian markets.

Author: Joseph P. Quinlan, Sumantra Sen, Kiran Nanda
Publisher: Random House India
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9788184003543
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Oozing well before the onset of summer, Thirsty Nation gushes out as a well-researched warning that if our nation continues its prodigal romance with water, bitter consequences are bound to befall.

Author: S. Hussain Zaidi
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Year: 2014
ISBN: 9789351362258
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With his gritty journalism and staunch investigative spirit, Zaidi finishes his painting of the Mumbai mafia with fresh strokes of saffron and blots of blood.

Author: Rohit Gore
Publisher: Grapevine India
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9789381841280
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“Who is the first person flashing in your mind when you hear this book’s title, The Guardian Angels?”

Imagine a ‘Brobdingnagian’ picking you up by your shirt all of a sudden, and placing you in the middle of a monsoon-time Mumbai pulsating in its bustling spirit? A surprisingly-delightful teleportation it would be. This is how you’ll feel when you flip through the starting pages of Rohit Gore’s The Guardian Angels.

Fellow human, please tell me that I am not the only one who is this influenced by a book, for I am scared that the society might question my sanity.

Why should you judge a book?
Like male and female, life and death, good and evil, and many other manifestations of Yin-Yang, books too can borrow the concept of natural duality, and thereby each book can be made to fall either under the category of ‘Good books’ or of ‘Bad books’.

Author: Anuja Chandramouli
Publisher: Platinum Press
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9789381576397
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This 360-page dedication to Veda Vyasa, truly the finest storyteller ever, is solely a retelling of the tale of Arjuna, the valiant warrior of Hindu mythology, and his role in Mahabharata. Mahabharata is by itself a tale with a magical mix of emotions which renders any reader mesmerized.

Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Random House Publishers
Year: 2010
ISBN: 9780385608275
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History of this and history of that, from answers for ‘which?’ to answers for ‘what?’, everything about everything at home can indeed be found At Home.

Indeed, few things were left unsaid. So this’s the way we met the lover-author to ask him ‘Kya Life Hogi Set?’ Let’s listen to the author of the bestsellers Few Things Left Unsaid & That’s the Way We Met