WINNERS OF THE 2019 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS Imagine you have a few million dollars. You want to spend it on the poor. How do you go about it? Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, … Continue reading POOR ECONOMICS By Abhijit V. Banerjee and Eshter Duflo
One of the comedy world’s fastest-rising stars tells his wild coming of age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. • Noah provides something deeper than traditional memorists: powerfully funny … Continue reading BORN A CRIME BY TREVOR NOAH
In 1839, Maharaja Ranjit Singh of Punjab, one of India’s greatest rulers, died and his empire was plunged into chaos. Less than a decade later, weakened … Continue reading The Exile – A novel based on the life of Maharaja Duleep Singh by Navtej Sarna
Anna Fox lives alone—a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine (maybe too much), watching old movies, recalling happier times . . . and spying on her neighbors. Then the … Continue reading The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn
“How we forget and inflate ourselves with the knowledge we think is absolute.” “To accept and acknowledge that we are in trouble is the first step towards getting out of it. The second is to know that we have arrived … Continue reading RUMI TALES TO LIVE BY – KAMLA K. KAPUR
A Flight of Pigeons by Ruskin Bond The Novel starts with the death of the father of Ruth Labadoor in front of her eyes in a church. This murder is committed by the Indian rebels who are a part of … Continue reading A Flight of Pigeons by Ruskin Bond
Kohinoor by William Dalrymple Dalrymple tells the earlier history, when the diamond was established as an emblem of power and sovereignty. He does this with his habitual panache, sweeping along the trail from the Mughal court in Delhi to Persia, … Continue reading Kohinoor By William Dalrymple and Anita Anand
Another Elif Shafak book that has kept me glued it. As I had heard mixed reviews about this book I didn’t know what to expect but it turned out to be an amazing book. Leila’s entire life flashes before her … Continue reading 10 minutes and 38 seconds in this strange world
Do check it out on goodreads https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js In this follow-up to The Tattooist of Auschwitz, the author tells the story, based on a true one, of a woman who survives Auschwitz, only to find herself locked away again. Cilka Klein … Continue reading CILKA’S JOURNEY By Heather Morris
This book is set in a French Village where a single mother Vianne arrives with her daughter Anouk. This book was adapted into a movie in the year 2000. Vianne turns an abandoned bakery into a Chocolate shop called La … Continue reading CHOCOLAT by JOANNE HARRIS
