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
Stitching Wisdom with Simple Threads There is a tremor in the air the moment her sentences arrive—quiet, almost self-deprecating, yet lit with an Amar Chitra Katha glow. You read them on a rattling Deccan train, or under the iodine streetlamp of a small‐town library, and suddenly you feel your shoulders loosen: here, at last, is … Read more
Prologue: The Silence That Followed the Applause There are stories that begin with a cry, a birth, a revolution, a betrayal. And then there are those that begin with a silence. This one began with a silence that followed the applause. On a drizzly winter afternoon in Delhi, the seventh floor of an old publishing … 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
Ali Abdaal’s The Joyful Art of Getting Things Done. ‘Feel Good Productivity’ Is the Soft Rebellion We Needed Against Hustle Culture. There are books that shout at you to wake up at 5 a.m. and crush your goals with the brutal discipline of a drill sergeant. Then there are books like Feel Good Productivity, which … Read more
On most mornings, I am already behind. The light filters in through the window curtain like a tired sigh. My phone, though untouched, vibrates with the insistence of a hundred conversations I did not sign up for. Emails blink like Morse code from another battlefield, WhatsApp pings echo with urgency, and I am expected—by the … Read more