The Secret – and why I think it’s baloney
All right believers, before you take offence and attack me, just please hear me out. All of us have heard about the bestselling book...
The Boy who lived…Harry Potter
By Malika Bhagat
As John Green rightly puts it,” Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you...
Indian Mythology = New Success Mantra For Indian Authors
“I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind....
Save the Cat – How one book took over Hollywood
By Aman Sardana If you’ve gone to the movies recently, you may have felt a strangely familiar feeling: You’ve seen this movie before. Not...
Dystopia: Of Hope and Helplessness
By Riya Kuruvilla
If we lived in a dystopian world, you wouldn't be reading this. Fortunately, it isn’t and we can talk about dystopian literature...
Escapist Indulgence in our Illusions of Control: From “The Lord of the Rings” to...
By Riya Kuruvilla
Ghosts and Goblins, Fairies and Elves, Trolls and Monsters, Werewolves and Vampires – these and various other shapely (or shapeless) creatures fill...
The Timekeeper: We’re all a little Obsessive Compulsive over Time
By Riya Kuruvilla
Hate or love it, you've still got to follow time. We are obsessed with the idea of “measuring the hour”, of trying...
Marley and Me: A Review
By Rhea Grover
As I sat looking for inspiration for my next article, staring aimlessly at my bookshelf I saw the book that had a...
The Unwritten Judith
By Aayushi Khandelwal
“Who shall measure the heat and the violence of the poet’s heart when caught and tangled in a women’s body?”
-Virginia Woolf, A...
The Fault In Our Stars- Cancer with a dash of Romance
By Riya Kuruvilla
Another typical romance novel? One would think so, with the title of the book “The Fault in our Stars”, by John Green...
Universe in a bucket: The Essence of Childhood.
This article was written by Riya Kuruvilla
If you were to ask me to recount my childhood, the most I could come up with would...
Books Or Their Movie Adaptations?
By Srishti B Dutta
This is the age of films being made which are inspired from their book versions. Hollywood as well as Bollywood is...
Inquisition; Poor Man’s Da Vinci Code?
By Roop Kunwar Singh
An Italian town with history engraved on every stone. A conflict rooted in the age old battle between religion and heresy....
‘Book’ing a Film/ TV Show… A Possibility?
The Law of Conservation of Stories states that Stories cannot be destroyed, but can change form, say from TV and films to books, or...
Amish – The Indian Paulo Coelho?
By Rhea Grover
As I laid my hands on the first book of the much exalting Shiva Trilogy, my eyes straight away went to a...
How fair are fairy tales?
Cinderella is tortured by her “evil’ step mothers and stepsisters. She finds her Prince Charming after endless hardships. Snow White is haunted by...
Get high on The Rum Diary
Written by Roop Kunwar Singh
‘The Rum Diary’- The first time I read the title, my impression was that of a melancholy love story with...
Can the charm of classics continue?
Classics- you may love them, you may hate them but you can’t ignore them. Some of us may go ahead and proclaim like Cliff...
J.K Rowling isn’t real, and 7 other literary conspiracies
1. J.K. Rowling Isn’t a Real Person
A rags-to-riches story about an impoverished woman who penned seven lengthy novels in ten years, sold over 250...
Looking for Alaska by John Green; a Review
By Kanwar Anand
Some books rely entirely on self deprecating humour to be funny but while this may be funny in that instance, it soon...
Books or Their Adaptations?
J.K. Rowling became an overnight sensation with the success of her popular book series Harry Potter. A lot of the credit for this goes...
Good business
The Business Solution to Poverty: Designing Products and Services for Three Billion New Customers. By Paul Polak and Mal Warwick. Berrett-Koehler; 264 pages; $27.95. Buy from Amazon.com
ONE of...
Confessions of a Book Worm
Apart from obsessing over half a million other things, I also have a passionate obsession over books of all kinds. Below is a list...
World’s Biggest Book fairs!
With the New Delhi Book Fair 2013 concluding in the month of August, this is a rundown on the biggest book fairs of the...
Why Harry Potter sells
For most fans of the series, Harry Potter is not just a book but a cultural framing agent of an entire generation. With the...
