Pooja Sharma
Novel revisits Agra of intrigues
Teeming tourists, Mughlai gardens, glittering bazaars, yawning Yamuna and the Taj Mahal; sights and sounds of Agra are unmistakable. But, picture Agra three-and-a-half centuries ago: Turban-clad nawabs scouting cattle markets for finest horses, Kinari Bazaar flowing with rich fabrics, luxurious havelies dotting the river and a Taj too young to care for a mud pack face-lift; This is the historic city Madhulika Liddle chooses for her latest book in the Muzaffar Jang series.
Blurring the line between fact and fiction
The line that separates fact from fiction may appear obvious to some and not so to the others.
A hill story that’s smooth as Scotch
Janet Laird, aka Jana Bibi, is a smart, spirited and sweet 58-year-old. And she comes with Mr Ganguly, her pet parrot. The duo, along with a long-time maid, Mary, move into Hamra Nagar as Jana, who is of Scottish origin, inherits her grandfather’s house.
International meet on bear conservation begins today
The 21st International Conference on Bear Research and Management (IBA 2012) will open in New Delhi on Monday. Experts from 35 countries will present 180 research papers in the five-day conference.
The pulse of New York in 1845
It can be a map into the future or a boring lesson, an intriguing puzzle or some lost facts; since history can be so many things at the same time, it makes the ideal dough for a novel.
‘Jobs liked to be in control of his life’
Steve Jobs’ idea of simplicity was not narrowing. What was narrowing was spending 50 years with television,” says Walter Isaacson, a former boss of Time magazine and CNN and the author of a bestselling biography of Apple’s founder Steve Jobs.
‘Gandhi is the Ganga that can dissolve all differences’
Did Mahatma Gandhi foresee the present age of Interment and communication? Is the Internet an avatar of the charkha?
Life and times of a London thug
In a street thick with smoke, looters smash their way into a local shop, steal whisky and beer. One man grabs a packet of cereal, another runs off laughing with four bottles of whisky. Out on the street many are pushing shopping carts full of stolen goods down the street.
Crushes on wrong people: LGBT and a questioning Q
In a town called Little Sister in Vermont a 13-year-old boy is taken to the town library by his soon-to-be stepfather. The young boy Bill, who has a secret crush on his mother’s boyfriend, asks the librarian for a book on crushes on wrong people.
‘I let a novel speak through its settings’
To ask the question, ‘why play sport’, is in my view analogous to asking the question, ‘why live life’,” says the impassioned prologue in Rahul Bhattacharya’s first book Pundits From Pakistan.
