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On Track: Best Books On Rail Travel
If the idea is only to get from A to B as quickly and efficiently as possible, flights are hard to beat. But for those who are not in a tearing hurry to get to wherever they are going, trains have a certain charm that air travel can’t match. Rail travel – especially long-distance rail…
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Fall, Don’t Fail
Based in Gurgaon, Rohit Goel is a senior professional who has worked in the automotive industry for two decades. As corporate vice president at an MNC, which decided to leave the Indian market, he was pink-slipped and kept a record of his last 30 days on the job in his diary. The result was Rohit’s…
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Cityscapes: Memorable Books on Indian Cities (Part II)
In Cityscapes Part I, we listed our favourite books on Allahabad, Banaras and Bombay. Here, in the second part, we talk about books on Calcutta, Lucknow, Ludhiana and Madras. CALCUTTA Longing Belonging: An Outsider at Home in Calcutta, by Bishwanath Ghosh‘Calcutta was no longer an old piece of furniture in the attic. It was an…
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Kottayam Pushpanath and the Wild World of Detective Marxin
There was this small library and reading room near my house in Trivandrum where I grew up. I started visiting the place to read about Kapil Dev’s antics in county cricket in The Hindu. Then I realised I could take back one book at a time to read at home. That opened up a world…
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Tales From Silicon Valley: Must-Read Tech-Biz Books (Part II)
You might have seen Part 1 of this feature, where we spoke about our first set of favourite technology-business books. Here’s the second part, with more books that are in the same vein. The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison, by Mike Wilson ‘Larry Ellison started the high-flying tech company Oracle with $1,200 in 1977…
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In Conversation With Toby Vintcent
Based in the UK, Toby Vintcent, who once served in the British Army and then had a career in investment banking, now writes thrillers based in the glamourous, fast-paced world of Formula 1. A world where the cars are fast, the women faster and competition cutthroat. No quarter given, none asked for. His books have…
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My Life With Books: Sachin Rao
Based in London, Sachin is a commercial features Editor at Guardian News & Media. One of the best writers/editors in the business, he has worked in the UK since the mid-2000s. Before that, he was based in Bombay, working with leading newspapers like Business Standard, Indian Express and Mumbai Mirror. With an eclectic range of…
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New-For-2023 List From HarperCollins India: The Books We Want
From Ratan Tata to Subhas Chandra Bose and from Bombay to Kashmir, this list has something for most readers who love well-written non-fiction. A S Dulat’s memoir looks promising, as does Prakash Magdum’s book on newsreels, documentaries and films made on Mahatma Gandhi. Bring ’em on, HarperCollins! Ratan Tata: A Life, by Thomas MathewRatan Tata…
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My Life With Books: Srinivas Krishnan
A legend in his own lifetime, Mumbai-based Srinivas has been an automotive person in the communications business or a communications person in the automotive business all along – advertising, journalism, corporate and public relations. He is currently senior vice president of the Mobility Practice at a leading PR agency, while also a writer and columnist…
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Reading By Design: Professor G.V. Sreekumar
G.V. Sreekumar is Professor and former Head of IDC School of Design at IIT Bombay and his specialisations include Typography, Calligraphy, Publication Design, Information Graphics, Design Pedagogy, and Visual Semantics. Prof. Sreekumar studied Applied Art at M.S. University, Baroda, and Visual Communication at IDC, IIT Bombay. Since the year 2000, he has been a faculty…