Category: Books

IANS Bookshelf: Reads for all reasons – from top cop’s memoirs to Bollywood lyrics

New Delhi, June 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) With the mercury showing no signs of relenting, sitting in the cool confines of your…

6 months ago

My young readers want me to make ghosts more scarier: Ruskin Bond

New Delhi, May 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Crisp white sheets of paper on his dining table, a bed that serves as his…

6 months ago

Devdutt Pattanaik decodes the words ‘tirtha’ and marga – and much else – in riveting talk

New Delhi, May 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) Mythologist and best-selling author Devdutt Pattanaik explored the uncharted terrain of infrastructure in mythology in…

6 months ago

Book review: How India transitioned from fragile five to first five

New Delhi, May 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) The prerequisite for visioning India as a developed nation (Viksit Bharat) by 2047 is self-reliance…

7 months ago

Acclaimed Urdu litterateur Salam Bin Razzaq passes away at 83 in Navi Mumbai

Mumbai, May 7 (SocialNews.XYZ) Renowned Urdu litterateur and academician, Shaikh Abdussalam Abdurrazzaq, famous by his pseudonym Salam Bin Razzaq, passed…

7 months ago

Ruchir Sharma’s warning to West: Beware of bigger governments you wish for

New Delhi, May 03 (SocialNews.XYZ) The 'New York Times'-listed bestselling author and head of the Rockefeller Capital Management's international business,…

7 months ago

Why Dan Radcliffe feels ‘sad’ about JK Rowling’s anti-transgender comments

Los Angeles, May 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actor Daniel Radcliffe feels “really sad” by Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling's constant anti-transgender…

7 months ago

Huma Qureshi reveals what perks her up even when she is ‘sleep deprived’

Mumbai, May 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) Actress Huma Qureshi, who is currently busy shooting for her next project 'Gulabi', shared what perks…

7 months ago

When writer and realist actor Balraj Sahni raced against a train for a film scene

New Delhi, May 1 (SocialNews.XYZ) More than three decades before Aamir Khan's train stunt in "Ghulam" (1998), this actor, renowned…

7 months ago

Why losing keys, everyday items may not always signal poor memory

New Delhi, April 29 (SocialNews.XYZ) Are you worried that your habit of losing keys and everyday items may be a…

7 months ago

PM Modi’s connect with women guarantees BJP’s unassailable lead: Noted economist

New Delhi, April 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) Noted economist and former Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Surjit Bhalla predicts…

7 months ago

‘Plays were part of the air we breathed’: Amal Allana remembers Ebrahim Alkazi

New Delhi, April 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) As his daughter, he treated her with the utmost care and was loving and protective.…

7 months ago

Oppn stuck in family & caste politics, BJP has moved far ahead: Ram Madhav

New Delhi, April 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ram Madhav, President, India Foundation, and RSS National Executive member, literally had the last word…

8 months ago

Indian civilisation oldest and continuous with a vast expanse: NSA Doval

New Delhi, April 9 (SocialNews.XYZ) Calling the Indian civilisation one of the oldest and continuous civilisations having "a vast expanse",…

8 months ago

A silver jubilee biography of Kerala’s visionary businessman relives TKM

Thiruvananthapuram, Mar 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) A social reformer, businessman, author, publisher, visionary, and “largest employer in the world,” Thangal Kunju Musaliar…

8 months ago

Gurcharan Das explains why only the Modi govt can fast-forward reforms

New Delhi, March 28 (SocialNews.XYZ) Top corporate executive of the yesteryear and now an acclaimed author and public intellectual, Gurcharan…

8 months ago

‘There’s so much of us in this novel’, Union minister Hardeep Puri told wife Lakshmi on her debut fiction

New Delhi, 14 March (SocialNews.XYZ) While she wears many hats, and many addresses befit her, what do we call her?…

8 months ago

Indira and Sanjay didn’t spare even sports; India paid for it at Montreal Olympics: Book Excerpts

New Delhi, March 12 (SocialNews.XYZ) Editor's Note -- TV journalist, blogger and newspaper columnist Vishnu Sharma has painstakingly put together…

8 months ago

Karan Singh chronicles his memorable encounters with remarkable women

New Delhi, March 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) It was a brief meeting with Hellen Keller that lasted a few minutes but it…

9 months ago

Divan Staliner book wins 7th Romain Rolland Book Prize

New Delhi, Feb 28 (IANSlife) The French Institute in India, in collaboration with Apeejay Trust, announces Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee’s book…

9 months ago



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