A Tale of Two Cities
First Line: It was the worst of times, it was the best of times.
Last Line: It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.
This is a gritty tale that Manish Gaekwad narrates about his mother’s life. Her memoir was recorded and written in 2020 – 2022. Rekha Devi died in February the following year. It must have been extremely challenging for Manish to write her story. Yet, I believe, this writing was necessary for him to come to terms with both his mother, himself and their fraught relationship.
This is many books rolled into one. First and foremost, it is a book about books. It is also about bookshops, about readers, and about the process of writing and the process of reading.
Indradeep is deeply involved in a varied range of subjects like politics, cinema, Indian music to fountain pens. He has over 10 years of experience in print and digital media, working with The Times of India and The Wire. He writes on topics such as democracy, human rights, social justice, culture and literature.
Failure to Make Round Rotis: Poems on Rebellion, Resilience and Relationships is former computer engineer turned poet Mehak Goyal’s powerful debut collection of verses.
The English Library at Nice is the largest in Southern Europe. It has been located at the same place for the last 160 years, inside the neo-Gothic Holy Trinity English Church campus.
Amitava Nag’s latest work is a book on Soumitra Chatterjee based on his long interviews with the multi-faceted genius. Nag and Chatterjee shared a relationship that reached far beyond the ‘mentor-admirer’ equation. In a chat with the author he opens up on this long relationship with one of the greatest talents West Bengal has produced in the 20th century.
This is a centenary history of the Institute of Rural Reconstruction which Rabindranath Tagore later named Sriniketan (originally known by the name Surul, a village in which the campus was located). In 1922, Leonard Knight Elmhirst went up from Santiniketan to Surul at Rabindranath’s request to initiate the actual work of the newly founded Institute of Rural Reconstruction.
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