Are you a new mom? Do you think there is no time to do all the things you loved doing? Are you always busy with the baby and think there is no time to read? You love reading but don’t know how to steal time from the busy schedule? Here are few tips for all you bibliophile new moms out there
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I am back with more banned books and looking at the history, I might continue this column for quite a long period! India has always thrown strong reactions to books that stir up some dirt from different layers of the society. It is not solely about books dealing with religion, there is every sphere that holds a record of works
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A snowy landscape strewn with barren, dying trees. A world so white that the horizon blends perfectly with the ground, not leaving any scope to demarcate between sky and snow. You might be imaginative enough to be envious of me sitting on snow and writing this article. Alas, this sums up a description of Siberia from ‘Kane and Abel’ by
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A couple of weeks ago, my wife received a message on WhatsApp from the mother of one of my daughter’s classmates. The mother – let us call her Mrs X, for convenience – had heard from her son that Kaavya (my daughter) is one of the better students in school when it comes to writing in English. Mrs X wanted
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If you, like me, are astounded that anyone actually needs to be told reasons for reading humour, then this piece is not for you. Or, maybe it is – for after all, more often than not, one is only preaching to the choir and it would ill-suit me to dispense with my only possible audience. But there I go too
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From the time you had dreamt of writing a book, to finally writing it and getting it published, you have treated your book only with love. And of course, you’ve wanted that everyone does so. But, when you are sending your baby out in the world, for readers to devour and enjoy it, be prepared that it will also be
Read moreKolkata: BEE Books (a Kolkata based publishing house) and STORY (predominantly a bookstore, previously called CROSSWORDS) organised a reading session on the evening of December 13, 2015 here. The event was of actor-author Barun Chanda who released his thriller, COKE, back in October in conversation with actor-director Churni Ganguly. After going over the basics of the storyline where the young
Read moreWith Dusshera gone, Diwali arriving and Thanksgiving around the corner – you shouldn’t have a dearth of reading good books. There’s a whole basket of genres and authors to choose from. A lot of interesting and gripping books have come up this season. Here’s a sneak peek of a few of them for you to read. The Bestseller She Wrote
Read moreWhy do you buy so many books? How can you read so many books? Did you really read that thick book so far? These and many more are the questions which are regularly posed to me by my friends and even strangers. Though strangers mostly ask me about my current read only when it is a thick book. For my
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