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Anything for You Ma'am An IItian's Love Story is a novel about a boy who falls hopelessly in love with a South Indian girl

Anything for You, Ma’am | Tushar Raheja | 2006 | Book Review

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Tushar Raheja is an IIT-Delhi graduate with a degree in industrial engineering. He completed his Masters of Science in Operations Research and holds a PhD from IIT Delhi, in applied probability.  The novel Anything for you Ma’am: An IITian’s Love Story was published during his final year of graduation. His second book, Romi Read more…

Bhupendra Singh fortuitously turned to books over a train journey to Chennai

Bhupendra Singh | Readers’ Story of the Week | Story #120

It was the month of July. I was travelling from Jaipur, Rajasthan to Chennai for an international cultural integration camp by train. The train journey usually took three days and four nights. As most Indians would agree, spending three days in a sleeper coach of Indian Railways is no mean feat. To add to your Read more…

Jeyalakshmi was motivated to read by her undying interest in stories

Jeyalakshmi | Readers’ Story of the Week | Story #116

As kids, we all listen to countless stories. However, all of that comes to an abrupt end as we start growing up. In my case, I found it difficult to leave those stories behind even as teenage life beckoned. My insatiable appetite for stories motivated me to read wherever I found one. That said, such Read more…

Kavita feels that books contributed to making her a confident individual

Kavita and her theory of everything

At a time when, fortunately, our parents offered us a very restricted, if at all any, access to mobile phoContentnes, and soap operas mainly catered to the saas and bahus (read cheesy family dramas), we had no option but to look for other modes of entertainment. As fate would have it, I stumbled upon my Read more…