A Meaningful Contribution for Tabla Players, Vocalists, Teachers, and Music Lovers
The most valuable specialist books are often those that take a familiar subject and reveal an aspect of it that deserves far more attention. Dr. Sandesh Raaje’s “Shastriya/Upashastriya Gayanamadhil Tabla Sangat” does exactly that. Tabla is one of the…
A Reader’s Take – Tender, Modern, Imperfect, and Hard to Forget
I went into My Orchid expecting a straightforward romantic novella, and I came away feeling that it is much more emotionally crowded—in a good way—than the premise first suggests. On the surface, the hook is easy to explain: a young man recovering from…
A Mature Voice in Tamil Writing – Reading Sowganthi in the Context of Mekala Chitravel’s Literary Journey
Sowganthi becomes especially interesting when read in the context of Mekala Chitravel’s remarkable literary journey. A writer who has completed one hundred books in Tamil does not arrive at a family novel with only the experience of fiction. Her work…
A Fresh Indian Voice Reimagining How Children Meet the Past
Weirdly Indian – Toilets, Toys & Total Mystery! is remarkable not because a twelve-year-old wrote a history book, but because the book makes a persuasive case for why a young person’s perspective can change the way history is told. Aadhya Patel’s age…
For the Fixers – A Reflective Love Story About Effort, Release, and Becoming
“The Autumn is for the fixers.” Few descriptions of a love story identify their intended reader so immediately. The phrase speaks to people who respond to difficulty with action: they explain, repair, accommodate, plan, wait, try again, and assume that…
Ashoka, Crescent and Dragon – An Ambitious Geopolitical Portrait of an Unfinished Question
Book: Kaśmīra: Ashoka and the Crescent | Author: Col Madhur Goyal, SM The title Kaśmīra: Ashoka and the Crescent immediately announces that Col Madhur Goyal, SM is interested in more than chronology. The book uses symbols to…
The Universal Reach of a Deeply Personal Poetic Voice
One of the enduring paradoxes of poetry is that the more sincerely a poet enters personal experience, the more widely the work can sometimes resonate. Readers do not necessarily connect because a poem describes their exact circumstances. They connect…
Mortality, Responsibility and the Meaning We Build in Between
The most compelling idea in B.C.D – Birth, Choices, Death: The Story of Life Between Two Certainties is not that human beings are free to choose everything. It is almost the opposite. Anoop Shanker Madan begins by acknowledging that two of the most…
A Book for the Leader You Are Becoming — Practical Wisdom for Managers, Engineers, and Executives
The CEO Mindset: Leading with Skills, Living with Soul, Volume I can be read as a senior executive’s reflection on leadership, but its most useful audience may be much wider. The book speaks to the manager who has just begun leading a team, the…
A Quiet Book of Values in a Noisy Age
We live in an age of speed. Advice arrives in short videos, notifications compete for attention, opinions are delivered instantly, and people are encouraged to optimize nearly every part of life. In this environment, a book called Reflections of Wisdom…