Qazi Ashraf’s “From Big Bang to Baghdad: A Brief Story of the Origin and Evolution of Religion” is a book that attempts to do something both daring and necessary: to place religion into the broader story of humanity without either glorifying…
There are many movies about the Crusades – an ideological and religious extension of Christianity. While movies and literature, at times, exaggerate and add romantic fervours to this massacre and fanaticism, the reality may have been different at that time.…
One may call it the latest trend that contemporary authors are looking into the past to bring unknown, secret, lesser-known, oblivious incidents, turning points, and historical and mythological perspectives to the fore through their novels. Many have succeeded in drawing…
Vivek Agnihotri is a very good filmmaker, director and thinker. He has proved the same with his movies and he does not need to prove anything else by writing books. However, from time to time, Vivek has been writing books…
Reading political books, books on foreign policies or bilateral relations between nations, global socio-political issues or anything that concerns nations, international politics or global issues might not be an interest for many readers. This may be because things get too…
Let's get straight into the topic, briefly, before we begin getting into the details while doing a book review of The Shambala Sutras by Aurijit Ganguli. The very debut novel of Mr Ganguli, The Shambala Sutras, is the book which…
Though Ashwin Sanghi is not untouched by the blames and charges that we often ascribe to the writings by Bhagat, Tripathi and others in the rally, there are some crucial points in the literature produced by him that keeps him…
The entry of Aurijit Ganguli on the horizon of Indian English fiction asserts the perception that reading habits of Indian readers are flexible enough to accept and reject things rather than being rigid and stubborn. The novelist who has made…
Kanthapura is a novel by Raja Rao, the famous Indian novelist, takes you back to the time when India was a slave of Britishers and struggling for her freedom. The book takes you the time when caste system was heavily…
The Palace of Illusions, a novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, is a perfect recipe for anyone who is an aspiring novelist and wants to make something happen. There a few very simple steps that a novelist-to-be needs to follow in…
