Walking with Nanak by Haroon Khalid is a brilliant book describing the author's fascination with Guru Nanak Ji which was reignited when he came upon "Baburbani" a poem written by the saint. This poem inspired the author to undertake a journey that he hoped would help...
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AN UNCOMMON LOVE BY CHITRA BANERJEE DIVAKARUNI
An uncommon love is a meeting of two souls. Sudha Kulkarni a young vivacious women making a breakthrough career as TELCO's first woman engineer where she meets a serious, idealistic and brilliant Narayan Murthy and they fall in love. Their beautiful love story is...
MAD DOGS AND AN ENGLISHWOMAN – CRYSTAL ROGERS ( CUPA BANGALORE)
Mad Dogs and an Englishwoman is an extraordinary and remarkable autobiography of Crystal Rogers who decided to dedicate her life to the welfare of stray, uncared animals in India and went on to set up CUPA ( Compassion Unlimited Plus Action ) in Bangalore. This books...
PAPILLION BY HENRI CHARRIERE
The book that took the world by storm One of the greatest books - a true story of escape and adventure ever written. I remember buying in at a Higginbotham's book stall at a railway station many years ago and still have to copy and have re-read in many time and each...
TAMARIND CITY BY BISWANATH GHOSH
Tamarind City is all about Chennai or Madras and I could immediately relate to it and fell in love with the book from page one as I am a south indian. Its a journey of different cultures meeting at one place, the rivalry between Iyers and Iyengars. The class...
PLATFORM TICKET BY SANGEETHA VALLAT
The first thing that struck me when I picked up this book to read is that I have spent many hours and times in the line for a ticket for a train journey, sometimes frustrated, sometimes helpless and at times thankful for the person beyond the counter for being patient...
GAZING AT NEIGHBOURS BY BISHWANATH GHOSH
Gazing at neighbours by Biswanath Ghosh is all about the line drawn by Cyril Radcliffe which divided and demarcated India into two nations...India and Pakistan...and India and Bangladesh... It's about people living between the barbed wires leading their lives sometime...