Tag: memoirs
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Not Just a Walk in the Park
Long roadtrips are great – we love those so much. We often dream of saddling up on a BMW R1250GS and riding off into the sunset. Or, for the times we crave air-conditioned comfort and when a motorcycle just won’t do, we think of the Mahindra Thar, which has a rugged charm that’s all its…
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Book Review: Raw Umber – A Memoir
‘Some of the boxes had never been opened. The viscous oil colours dried up and hardened, and the tight caps were difficult to unscrew. Raw Umber, Gamboge, Cobalt Blue, Scarlet Lake, Ultramarine…,’ says Sara Rai, speaking of the tubes of paint her father – of whom she writes at length and with great affection –…
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Our Must-Reads List for April
Our wishlist of books for April is diverse as always; from an account of the rise and fall of the Pahalvis of Iran, to the life and times of Sabira Merchant, and from the genius of Nikola Tesla to stories and struggles of Northeast India. For good measure, there’s also a really short history of…
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Book Review: Just Aspire – Notes on Technology, Entrepreneurship and the Future
The background:Back in 1975-76, Ajai Chowdhry, a young engineer from Jabalpur left a stable, secure job with DCM Data Products and joined forces with Shiv Nadar and four other associates to set up a company that would design and manufacture computers; Hindustan Computers Ltd. (HCL) was born. Remember, this was back in the day when…
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Travels in Africa: The 7 Books to Read
Once known as the dark continent and still seen as a ‘difficult’ place by some, Africa is the world’s second-largest continent, with 20% of the Earth’s land area and a population of more than 1.4 billion people. Half a dozen European countries plundered, raped and mercilessly looted Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries and…
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Book Review: A Life in the Shadows
His name is Dulat. Amarjit Singh Dulat. And as a former head of India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), which handles things like, among others, foreign intelligence, counter-terrorism, counter-proliferation, and managing security for the country’s nuclear programme, he’s the real deal. In addition to garden variety bureaucrats and politicians, Dulat has, in the course of…
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On the Hippie Trail – Part I
For most of us, the word ‘hippie’ is associated with images from the 1960s-70s, of Westerners – long-haired white men and women – clad in semi-tattered psychedelic clothing, smoking weed, chilling out on the beaches of Goa, dancing to their own beat and generally not giving a damn. An article from the July 7, 1967…
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The Memoirs We Want to Read in 2023
Who doesn’t enjoy reading a well-written memoir? And for 2023, there’s quite a few lined up that we’d love to read. Okay, we’ll not be able to read all five in January but that’s okay, right? The list is in no particular order and some memoirs mentioned here have been published recently, while some are…
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