Long ago, a hardworking washerwoman lived with her only son, a 21-year-old young man. Every day, they carried heaps of dirty clothes to the river, diligently washing, drying, folding, and delivering them on time. Their services were trusted not only by the villagers but also by the royal palace, including the king himself. Each morning, Read more…

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…

I am an out-and-out bibliophile; I even love the smell of books. I started reading at a very young age. Maybe it was something I learned from my father. Looking back, I still remember the times when I and my brother went out to buy vada or some other snack from the street vendors or Read more…

Books are one of the most underrated means of entertainment. It is actually a pity that most people choose to ignore these gems. We have all met someone who attributes their command of English to the English movies/shows they watched. In my case, however, that credit goes to books. While movies and shows can help Read more…

Synopsis: When it comes to taking on the most challenging obstacles and overcoming the toughest odds, few people can claim to be as cool-headed as Viswanathan Anand. Since the age of six, when he first learned to make his opponents dance to the moves of his chess pieces, Vishy – as Anand is fondly known Read more…

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ravi Subramanian is an alumnus of IIM Bangalore. He works with a leading foreign bank and has had a career spanning 14 years. If God was a Banker is his first book and was published in 2007. It has sold more than 260,000 copies and has been a national bestseller. The book Read more…

To be honest, I detested books back when I was a schoolgoing kid. On second thoughts, I was not completely averse to reading; I preferred reading picture books to those boring black-and-white textbooks. As years passed by, the library period saw us compelled to read for one hour. With no other option, I began to Read more…

Since my mom and dad had married against my grandparents’ wishes, I did not know much about my grandfather, Pulavar P.S. Krishnamurthy. By the time I reached my adolescence, they had accepted us and the family had been reunited for good. That’s when I got the opportunity to know my celebrity grandfather in person and Read more…

Well, we will need to go a long way back to understand my chemistry with books. I feel that my penchant for books is purely genetic as both my parents and grandparents had healthy reading habits. As they say, when you enjoy doing something, you lose track of everything around you. That’s just how I Read more…

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…