Book Review of ‘Kai Chand The Sar-e Asman’ (कई चाँद थे सर-ए-आसमान) by Shamsur Rahman Faruqi (शम्सुर रहमान फारुकी) Review by Anil Saxena “There are books that are written to tell a story, and then there are books that recreate a world. This is the latter.” Shamsur Rahman Faruqi’s Kai Chand The Sar-e Asman (748 […]
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Book Review of ‘Culture – A New World History’, by Martin Puchner Pages: 476 | Buy Book Book Review by Anil Saxena I listened to the audiobook version of Culture: A New World History by Martin Puchner and liked it a lot. The author deals with the issues of culture, and without defining it rigidly,
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Book Review of ‘My Name Is Red’, by Orhan Pamuk. 544 Pages | Buy Book Review by Anil Saxena A Masterpiece of Psychological Mystery and Artistic Debate This remarkable 688-page psychological murder mystery set in medieval Turkey, penned by the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Orhan Pamuk, is a compelling page-turner in the “whodunit” thriller
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Book Review of ‘A Chequered Brilliance’, by Jairam Ramesh 744 pages | Buy Book Review by Anil Saxena A Portrait of a Paradox: VK Krishna Menon A Chequered Brilliance by Jairam Ramesh is a biography of one of India’s most controversial yet influential figures—VK Krishna Menon. A politician, diplomat, and freedom stalwart of a unique
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Book Review: Swami Vivekananda – The Living Vedanta by Chaturvedi Badrinath 480 pages | Buy Book Book Review by Anil Saxena A Remarkable Work Beyond Biography Chaturvedi Badrinath, an IAS officer and a philosopher, offers in this book not just another account of Swami Vivekananda’s teachings. This is no run-of-the-mill biography. It is a scholarly,
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