Book Review: Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

Sea of Poppies paints a poignant picture of the human devastation caused by imperialism. The fertile farms of the Gangetic plain are blooming only with poppies - beautiful, deadly, denying the peasants the crops to sustain them.

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Surjit Singh Barnala?s book released

Recently Haryana governor, Dr AR Kidwai released the Urdu edition of a book written by Tamilnadu governor, Surjit Singh Barnala. The book was based on the lives of two girls - one, who hailed from US and the other from J&K.

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Book review : 'Identity and Violence' by Amartya Sen

Amartya Sen?s book, 'Identity and Violence' examines the unfortunate connection between violence and our tendency to identify with one key trait ? our ethnicity or religion, for example ? to the exclusion of all others.

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Book Review: I Too Had A Love Story

A celebrated maxim says that it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Ravinder Singh's 'I Too Had A Love Story' proves the maxim true and beautifully depicts the beauty and power of true love..

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Indus to organise Collector's Book Festival

Mumbai?s exclusive hangout for book lovers, Indus book store has announced a unique exhibition and sale of special limited edition and collector's books from across the world. The special discount sale and display will be from April 3 to 15, 2009. .

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Now own the Moon or at least a small part of it

To commemorate 40 years of man's first steps on the moon, international art book publishers Taschen have come out with a special limited edition of journalist Norman Mailer's book 'MoonFire' with a small piece of original Moon Rock .

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Rural publisher in Limca Book of Records

Mohapatra, a Orissa based poor publisher, has got his name written in Limca Book of records for publishing a children's magazine in 64 different languages, including Hindi, English, Telgu, Assemese, Dogari, Manipuri and even Magahai and Ho.

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