When I think about Sowganthi, I keep returning to the relationship between its two central figures: Sowganthi, the mother, and Rishi, the son who loves and cares for her. The premise is wonderfully direct, but it opens the door to a surprisingly rich question: what makes a good son? Literature…
The most impressive civilizations are often introduced through their largest achievements: monumental buildings, military victories, famous rulers, or vast territories. Weirdly Indian – Toilets, Toys & Total Mystery! makes a much more interesting choice. It asks readers to look down rather than up—to look at drains, bathrooms, bricks, toys, seals,…
One of the most engaging ideas in The Autumn is that compatibility does not automatically create permanence. Aaradhya and Kabir are not introduced as obvious opposites who must learn to understand each other. They are described as a match. She is meticulous and fiercely intelligent; he is brilliant and responsible…
Book: Kaśmīra: Ashoka and the Crescent | Author: Col Madhur Goyal, SM Kaśmīra: Ashoka and the Crescent becomes especially distinctive when read through the background of its author. Col Madhur Goyal, SM is not approaching Kashmir only as a commentator looking at maps, documents and headlines from a safe distance.…
To read Ripples of Tranquil with knowledge of Dhanashree Ganatra’s wider artistic life is to recognise that this is a poetry collection created by someone who does not experience words as silent objects alone. Ganatra is also a singer, songwriter, music composer, and filmmaker, and that multidisciplinary background offers a…
Anoop Shanker Madan’s B.C.D – Birth, Choices, Death: The Story of Life Between Two Certainties approaches spirituality from an unusually grounded direction. Instead of beginning with transcendence, enlightenment or escape from worldly concerns, it begins with the ordinary human condition. We are born without choosing the terms of our arrival.…
What does a chief executive actually lead? The obvious answers are a company, a strategy, a portfolio, a market position, a balance sheet, or a transformation agenda. The CEO Mindset: Leading with Skills, Living with Soul, Volume I asks readers to add another answer: a human environment. Dr. h.c. Yogesh…
Reflections of Wisdom can be read as more than a general nonfiction book about lifestyle and behavior. It can also be understood as the extension of an educator’s lifelong classroom into the wider world. Shri Upendra Nath Rath spent thirty-six years teaching English in Kendriya Vidyalaya, and his broader life…
Some books are written after research. Others are written after a life has been spent inside the subject. Organ Donation – A Social Perspective belongs much more to the second category. Sunil Ranganath Deshpande approaches organ-donation awareness not as an observer looking in from the outside, but as a campaigner…
किसी निबंध-संग्रह की वास्तविक शक्ति इस बात से पहचानी जा सकती है कि वह पाठक को अपने निजी संसार से बाहर निकालकर समाज, प्रकृति और राष्ट्र के प्रश्नों से कितना जोड़ता है। डॉ. चन्द्र प्रकाश शर्मा की “अमृत्व की खोज” इसी अर्थ में उल्लेखनीय है। पुस्तक में आध्यात्मिक और सांस्कृतिक…