Shubhojit Kumar

THE SECRET KEEPER

The voice of the woman has always come out pretty strong in the stories of Mitali Perkins. And with The Secret Keeper, Perkins has taken that structure to a whole new place completely. Just make sure that when you next buy books online, this book should b... Read >

RD BURMAN: THE MAN, THE MUSIC

One thing that just cannot be ignored or denied by people, any one actually — that irrespective of when you were born, whichever decade, whichever time frame, whichever whenever, your introduction to Hindi film music has always been RD Burman. Undoubtedly... Read >

THE THIRD PRINCE by PHIROZ H MADON

Alright, I admit that I was biased right from the start. I surrender to boos and catcalls, but the fact is that when I started flipping through the first few pages, I had a strong inclination to link matters with The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rush... Read >

FACING MY PHANTOMS by SHEEBA SHAH

We all like it when we get an inside scoop into affairs, right? Like right from the horse’s mouth! Because it is only then that we tend to believe, and rightly so, that the story that comes to us is official, is the correct story, and not a fragment of so... Read >

Browse online at leisure for your favorite book — 24 x 7

I remember this one particular incident that I used to have when I went about buying books at bookstores. Buying books is not like buying potatoes and tomatoes at the local vegetable monger. Buying books requires time, patience and the very prospect of go... Read >

Latest New Releases at Great Discounts and Free Shipping in India

How many times have you been deterred from buying a book because of the price? Believe it or not, pricing has always been a major impediment in getting the books that you really want to read. After all, it’s not always that you can easily shrug out 575 bu... Read >

LUKA AND THE FIRE OF LIFE

Salman Rushdie. Sir Salman Rushdie. First we need to take a few minutes and actually sit here and digest that name. Only then can we move to the point that we originally wanted to discuss. After winning the Booker of Bookers with his magical tale, Midnigh... Read >

How to create an inspirational room with books

How many times has it happened to you, that you go to visit someone’s house and suddenly, you are bogged down there by huge stacks of books, paneled into book shelves that stretch right from wall to wall! This was at one point a common phenomena in my lif... Read >

THE STREET TO THE HIGHWAY

VineetBajpai has been quite a revelation all through the way. Ever since he burst into the scene with his entrepreneurial abilities, he has been the star of talk shows on business channels and has been an inspiration for youngsters to break into the busin... Read >

Five reasons why I want my favorite book close to me.

Remember, when we were young, many of us has the tendency to sleep with our favorite toy gun under our pillow? Simply because its supposed to protect you in your dreams. But all through my childhood, I always chose something different to get me going. For... Read >

Winter, a sunny day, an easy chair and my favorite book

I know that people who live in the United States of America, or in the northern European countries, love the days when the Sun is out. Quite the reverse here in India. We call those days “beautiful days" when we get up and see the sky overcast with dark c... Read >

THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE

Stieg Larsson’s entire Millennium Trilogy is one of the best books that I had ever read. The first one in the series, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo had taken me and several other readers around the world by storm and it is no doubt that I, along with th... Read >

Find a friend who never hid anything from you — buy books online

We start making friends from the time we are born. I don’t think anyone will argue about the fact that the first friend you ever make is your mother — before the semantics of the word friendship come into play. And from that point onwards, your circle of ... Read >

To enjoy your journey, go to an online bookstore and choose a travel friend

I like to read. Like really, really, really like to read. I don’t mind being called a bookworm, since I am one. And yet, I was once in a huge dilemma about reading time. Alright, so I read at home, while eating, lying down, sitting — even while doing my t... Read >

THE BED OF PROCRUSTES: PHILOSOPHICAL AND PRACTICAL APHORISMS

I for one love aphorisms. “If it ain’t broke, then don’t fix it". Now how true is a sentence like that? And though I had read two definitions of aphorisms in the dictionary when I had first looked up the word, I realized that they were both actually two s... Read >