A Bookshop of Second Chances Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and the Quiet Rebellion of Hope In the heart of Tokyo, where alleys coil like threads of forgotten stories, there stands a bookshop that smells of old paper and second chances. It is cramped. Dusty. The kind of place where books lean on each other … Read more
11/22/63 Book Review Prologue: The Diner and the Doorway A tired neon sign hums above Al’s diner. Grease pops; a jukebox wheezes; a slice of pie cools beside a Formica counter that has known every shade of midnight. And in the pantry, hidden behind sacks of Idaho potatoes, waits a staircase that doesn’t belong. Step … Read more
15 Quiet Epiphanies — Kane and Abel Book Review 1. Kane and Abel Book Review & the Miracle of Simultaneity Two infants, two hemispheres, one tick of the cosmic metronome: 18 April 1906. William, swaddled in Boston lilac; Władek, cradled by Galician birch roots. That shared dawn thrums like a tuning-fork through the whole novel. … Read more
Gods Guns and Missionaries 7 Reasons Manu S. Pillai’s Chronicle Will Rewrite Your Sense of India Gods, Guns and Missionaries & the Malabar Dawn The coast wakes first. Pale nets rise like lace, church bells parry temple gongs, and a musk duck drifts beneath a Portuguese fort still redolent of cinnamon and spent gunpowder. Between … Read more
7 Reasons The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin Is the History Book India Deserves The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin 1. The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin Begins with a Whisper, Not a War Cry History, in most Indian classrooms, wears a grey Nehru coat and carries a pointer. … Read more
8 Lessons That Clink in the Mind Why The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel Reads Like a Ledger of Longings The Psychology of Money and the First Light of Finance The Psychology of Money doesn’t open with balance sheets—it opens with breath. Dawn spills over Dalal Street like molten brass. A chai-wallah … Read more
A River That Remembers: The Covenant of Water and the Mythic Pulse of Kerala How Abraham Verghese looses a century of tides, surgeries, & sorrows—and asks whether story itself can be a lifeboat. The Covenant of Water Begins in Stillness. The Allepey backwaters wake early. In the first light, coconut fronds comb the wind, … Read more
Book Review: The Mistress of Spices The Mistress of Spices: Between Turmeric and Temptation A review of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s intoxicating novel that simmers with scent, sacrifice, and the surreal. In The Mistress of Spices, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni brews a novel that is less read and more inhaled. It comes to you not in a … Read more
A poetic review of Talking Life by Javed Akhtar and Nasreen Munni Kabir. This book captures a masterful life through conversations about cinema, poetry, activism, and resilience. Talking Life Javed Akhtar Book Review How a lyrical conversation becomes a memoir of resilience, cinema, and the poetry of being The Soul of the Book: Talking Life … Read more
In the palaces and paradoxes of colonial India, history sheds its powdered wigs and princely turbans, and dons a human face. In a quiet room lined with books, I first opened Manu S. Pillai’s False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma expecting a stroll through opulent corridors and gilded anecdotes. What I … Read more