A candidly honest account of the life of Shivarama Karanth and wife Leela.
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How a pre-teener found a treasure in the private book collection of India’s first Foreign Secretary, KPS Menon
A passionate reader’s many encounters with the inimitable Edgar Rice Burroughs and the raw and ready Tarzan.
Author and researcher Shashank Shekhar Sinha explains how a Sufi saint influenced the choice of Fatehpur Sikri, the new Mughal capital under Akbar’s rule.
When analysing the iconography of temples founded by the Birla family, the multitude of female representations becomes apparent.
With the blockbuster movies from the Marvel and DC stables, they are now a serious business.
The author comes from a family of hard-core rationalists, but his overly active imagination prevented him from sleeping well after reading horror novels
The author was quite an ‘MCP’ as a seven-year-old, looking down upon comic books featuring girls as main characters, until Little Lulu came along.
What links Robin Hood to AJ Raffles, Simon Templar and Norman Conquest
Agatha Christie might hold the record as the world’s best-selling fiction writer, but the author was disappointed by the first novel of hers he chanced upon at the age of 14. But he didn’t give up, and considers Christie unparalleled in cleverly deceiving the reader.