The author, a cricket fan, remembers how he fell in love with football and a few books that helped him delve deep into the game.
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In Letter and Spirit!
Movies based on books are mostly disappointing but legal thrillers are an exception.
Edgar Wallace created several unforgettable series characters like Commissioner Sanders, the African chief Bosambo, Inspector Elk of Scotland Yard and the Three Just Men. I first…
Mieko Kawakami exploded onto Japanese cultural scene first as a musician then as a poet and later as a blogger and finally as an award-winning novelist
Major collections of Rabindranath Tagore’s English work published by Sahitya Akademi do not mention this interview. Most of the people I met on the voyage back…
Writer as a researcher goes to Telangana State Library to unearth the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and his tips to Americans. The pigeons chased each other…
Time-travelling gets a new meaning with Kawaguchi and his tales. Of course, conditions apply. Sit on a particular seat and a cup of coffee is going…
Exactly two years ago, Lucy Delap deconstructed the myth that feminism is all about euro-centrism in her marvellous work Feminisms: A Global History
Are the comic lovers a bunch of middle aged persons scrounging in old book shops? ‘No’, says the author. I always believed that my generation, who were…
The recently released book Athishaya Vara Prasadini, which contains notations of 50 rare Carnatic compositions, is a treasure for Carnatic musicians. Notating Carnatic compositions is not…