Today's fast-paced life leaves very little time for us to think about our health. The body is the most important asset we are born with and this is what stays with us till the end of life. A deeper understanding of food and how to eat them is required to lead a healthier life. Below is a list of 5 books that will help you learn better about vegetarian recipes and also explain how food interacts with our body.

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Excerpt of the book Winning Like Sourav by Abhirup Bhattacharya. What makes Sourav Ganguly, the ‘Prince of Kolkata’, such a winner?

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Read the excerpt from the book - The Myth of Hastinapur. Draupadi was sitting at the makeshift Shiva temple erected near the boundary of Kurukshetra where the Pandavas had set up their camp...

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. – Joseph Campbell   The book 'Winning Like Sachin' showcases and illustrates the various attributes of that make Sachin Tendulkar the role model, n Read the excerpt from the 5th chapter of the book. (To buy, Winning Like Sachin at the best price, click here.) DO WHAT YOU DO BEST… The fact that Sachin sc...

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Did Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi ever play cricket? Were there any connections between Gandhi and cricket during the high tide of national movement?  The book, Mahatma on The Pitch, tries to find answers to these apparently quirky questions by exploring the untold relationship between Mahatma Gandhi, and Indian cricket. Read the excerpt from the 3rd chapter of the book.

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'Tis the season to be jolly... and to decorate using red, green and white! Check out these Christmas trees made using books. Who would have thought there could be so many innovative ways of using books to create trees?

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Book cover design is an interesting art form, if you think about it. The cover is an expression, a description, of the contents of the book, but it should be neither too obvious nor too obscure - it has to reveal the book's soul using a single image.

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Shilpa Shetty sent the Twitterati into a tizzy today with her claim that Animal Farm by George Orwell is a great children's book that encourages kids to be kind to animals. The hashtag #ShilpaShettyReviews soon started trending at the top.

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The name Malgudi evokes a nostalgic response in almost anyone you meet. Somehow it seems to bring about memories of a simpler, less complicated era in our lives, so much so that even Indians who've never experienced village life firsthand feel as though 'Malgudi' might be their 'native village'! Advertisers for quite a few products now use 'Malgudi' and its associations to help brand their products – fruit jui...

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Funniest quotes by P.G.Wodehouse. These funny Wodehouse quotes on marriage, life, women, men, and more will have you rolling in the aisles!

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Mirrors
Review / October 11, 2012

Author: Eduardo Galeano
Publisher: Granta
Year: 2010
ISBN: 9781846274398
[rating:4.5/5]
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History is perhaps the most flawed edifice that has been handed down and been added to by successive generations of the world. It works by t...

The Godfather
Review / October 9, 2012

Author: Mario Puzo
Publisher: Arrow Publications
Year: 1991
ISBN: 0099429284
[rating:4.9/5]
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Tyrant, Blackmailer, Racketeer, Murderer - His influence reaches every niche of the American society, his personality instigating fear a...

English August
Review / October 8, 2012

Author: Upamanyu Chatterjee
Publisher: Penguin Books
Year: 1988
ISBN: 0571218768
[rating:4/5]
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Like wine that improves as it ages, Agastya’s 24 year old story is still widely read by the young and old and as expected, Agas...

Anthem : Ayn Rand
Review / October 6, 2012

Authors: Ayn Rand
Publisher: Plume
Year: 1999(first published 1938)
ISBN: 9780452281257
[rating: 5/5]
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This beguiling book in spite of being surprisingly short, speaks volumes about Objectivism, the philosophy of A...

What Young India wants
Review / October 5, 2012

Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa Publications
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9788129120212
[rating:3/5]
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Ironical enough that I read this book on 2nd October, Mahatma’s birthday. To speak about the book I will say it tells ...

Fifty Shades of Grey
Review / October 3, 2012

Author: E L James Publisher: Random House Year: 2012 ISBN: 9780099579939 [rating: 3/5] Click for latest prices


After much hype about 'Fifty shades of Grey' by E.L. James, I finally decided to give it a read. It is the first part of the Fifty Shades trilogy followed by Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed.

Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil
Review / October 2, 2012

Authors: Liz Greene Publisher: Samuel Weiser Inc. Year: 1976 ISBN: 9780877283065 [rating: 4/5] Click for latest prices

This book by Liz Greene is indeed a splendid blend of astrology and psychology. Possession of prior knowledge of these disciplines, especially astrology would incontrovertibly escalate the ease of voyaging t...

Review: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Review / October 1, 2012

Authors: Haruki Murakami
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday
Year: 2012
ISBN: 9780307950628
[rating: 4.5/5]
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To read Murakami is an experience, one of the types which circulate over our known fears and anguish, especially those which keep us awake at night. However it paves way far from the conve...

The Island Beneath the Sea
Review / September 26, 2012

Authors: Isabel Allende Publisher: Harper Perennial Year: 2011 ISBN: 9780061988257 [rating: 4/5] Click for latest prices


The Island Beneath the Sea is everything we have come to expect from Isabel Allende. It is rich, colourful and sensual. Her writing became popular with her heart rending memoir Paula where she chronicled her daugh...