Ashutosh Kumar Thakur

‘The Living Mountain’ is a beautifully told story within the structure of a fable

June 10, 2022

A new story from internationally renowned author Amitav Ghosh, The Living Mountain is a cautionary tale of how we have systematically exploited nature, leading to an environmental collapse. He has also unravelled the core of the global narrative and our understanding of the climate catastrophe once again. The book is...

HOW TO ACHIEVE HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS IN TODAY’S WORLD

April 15, 2022

We live in a fast-paced and highly competitive world. The last few years have seen changes not witnessed in centuries. Have all these developments increased our sense of well-being? Data seems to suggest otherwise! Stop and think about your life on a regular basis. Practising thankfulness by pressing the stop...

‘The Odd Book Of Baby Names’ Captures The Essence Of Dysfunctional Family

February 25, 2022

Anees Salim writes with measured pace, assured fluency and considerable imagination. Reading him is akin to listening to Indian classical music, soothing and melodious. Anees is a writer’s writer, and writers adore him as they get to learn so many things. And, like his previous novels, his latest one is...

UNDERSTANDING THE IGNORED ‘FACES OF INEQUALITY’

January 28, 2022

Journalist Pradeep Baisakh collected an account of the persecution and turmoil of approximately a number of places from various states while travelling through all the difficult roads in the book “Faces of Inequality: Stories of the poor and underprivileged from India’s grassroots,” recently published by Notion Press. Biasakh’s book is...

THE HAUNTING TALE OF A GRAND CITY AND ITS WOMEN

January 7, 2022

Tarana Husain Khan, whose book The Begum and the Dastan (Tranquebar) goes back to the year 1897, when in the princely state of Sherpur, Feroza Begum, beautiful and wilful, defies her family to attend the sawani celebrations at Nawab Shams Ali Khan’s Benazir Palace. When Feroza is kidnapped and detained in the...

AMITAV GHOSH TRACES CLIMATE CRISIS BACK TO THE DISCOVERY OF NEW WORLD

November 12, 2021

Amitav Ghosh’s latest book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the maritime passage to the Indian Ocean and is a remarkable mix of history, essay, testimony, and polemic. The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that today’s climate change dynamics are based on a centuries-old geopolitical system...

Delving deep into the socio-political situation of West Bengal

March 19, 2021

What we know as history is not always a true retelling of the past—and often, history is hidden by falsehoods and a complete whitewashing of facts. With his debut book Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre, journalist and writer Deep Halder did a brave job of uncovering...

An unmissable love story set in Mughal times

January 22, 2021

The Romance of Roopmati and Baz Bahadur Malathi Ramachandran Niyogi Books, Rs 395 Mandu is a perfect set up of historical tale and fiction as perceived by author Malathi Ramachandran. The book is a glimmering imagination and magnificence materialised on paper. As an author, Malathi has been successful in portraying...

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