There is an important emotional idea at the heart of Kiran Sandhu’s Customise Your Beauty: personal beauty should begin with understanding rather than comparison. The modern beauty environment constantly encourages people to look outward. Social media offers faces to copy, influencers promote routines to reproduce, advertisements define problems we may…

Although Echoes from the Atoll: Inside India’s First TB-Free Islands is built around an extraordinary public health achievement, its deepest questions are not medical. They are human. What makes a place home? How does a community hold on to its identity while changing? What do outsiders learn when they stay…

This interpretation immediately gives the text emotional relevance. Most readers will never command an army or participate in a historic confrontation, but nearly everyone understands paralysis. We know what it is like to delay a difficult decision, to fear disappointing someone, to question our own judgement, or to remain in…

The conversation about artificial intelligence often begins with a comparison: what can machines do better than people, and what will be left for humans? Fungibility: The Art & Science of Adding Value Anywhere takes a more productive route. Rather than asking readers to compete with technology on the terms technology…

Return of the Soul can be read as a reincarnation romance, but one of its most rewarding dimensions is the way Geetha Ramesh places a woman’s experience at the centre of a story spanning two lives. Roopini, the heroine of the wartime portion, and Sreeja, her reborn self, are connected…

In contemporary fiction, emotional intensity is often confused with emotional volume. Stories about love are frequently made “bigger” through dramatic misunderstandings, extreme conflict, spectacular sacrifices, or a sequence of shocks designed to keep readers turning pages. Mitisha Mukherji’s It’s All About Love: From an Incomplete Wish to a Complete Story…

Book: Empowered: Leadership and Self-Awareness for Women  |  Author: Syeda Faiza  |  Category: Business & Management / Leadership One of the most interesting questions raised by Syeda Faiza’s Empowered: Leadership and Self-Awareness for Women is not simply “How can women become better leaders?” It is “What happens when women are…

Book: Hijack: And Its Repercussions | Author: Prashantha Naveen Karkera | Category: Non-Fiction (General) The most striking quality of Hijack: And Its Repercussions is that its deepest act of courage does not occur only on the sea. It also occurs at home. Prashantha Naveen Karkera’s narrative recounts a frightening real-life…

Book: Golden Bear  |  Author: V.S. Sury  |  Category: Drama Golden Bear by V.S. Sury is built around one of the most enduring sources of drama: people wanting what they cannot have. What gives the book its personality is the way that familiar emotional truth is arranged. Instead of a…