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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Edgar Wallace created several unforgettable series characters like Commissioner Sanders, the African chief Bosambo, Inspector…
Writer as a researcher goes to Telangana State Library to unearth the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath…
Vineeth Abraham recollects how a chance encounter with the benevolent book thief of Irinjalakuda has boosted his book-collecting enterprise.
It’s not just books that are filled with stories, libraries and their settings too speak volumes.
How the great detective Sherlock Holmes captured the imagination of a little boy in a small town in Central Kerala.
The man who gave us the eternal optimist Charlie Brown, his philosophising canine Snoopy and the incorrigible Lucy remains one of the best cartoonists we’ve ever seen
Making people laugh and forget their cares is probably the most difficult craft. However, some of the terrific humour writers have done just that
There are a host of relatively unsung writers who are as witty as Jerome K Jerome or Mark Twain, and are worthy of reading and even re-reading, says the author, giving a glimpse of some of his favourites — Richard Armour, Tom Sharpe and Henry Cecil among them