Articles by Sonya Dutta Choudhury
Book Box | Why I hug trees
Walk through forests and books to discover the healing power of trees
Published on Sep 22, 2024 07:00 AM IST
Book Box | Why readers can't have enough of books about bookstores
These feel-good books about bookstores provide a soothing sense of well-being, a connection with the community and a return to the simple pleasures of life.
Published on Sep 15, 2024 08:00 AM IST
Book Box | How to stay calm
From breathing to boundaries, here are books to help you stay calm in an age of anxiety
Published on Sep 07, 2024 08:37 PM IST
Book Box | How to be alone
Read this Belgian-American poet and writer to inspire you when you are alone.
Published on Aug 31, 2024 06:26 PM IST
Book Box | Why leaders should read science fiction
These three sci-fi titles are an easy way to get you started on the road to being a better leader
Published on Aug 24, 2024 06:29 PM IST
Book Box | The Reading India Project
A book club sets aside bestseller lists, to discover India, one book at a time
Published on Aug 17, 2024 09:06 PM IST
Book Box | Eight life-changing books to read in your twenties and beyond
From inspiring stories of artists to tackling writer's block, these eight books make adulting easier.
Published on Aug 11, 2024 12:32 AM IST
Book Box | A browsing list of eight new and notable books
Here's a round-up of recent reads, a mix of genres that includes the latest Amor Towles and the forthcoming Matt Haig.
Published on Aug 03, 2024 08:18 PM IST
Book Box | Meet award-winning mystery writer Angie Kim
This Stanford and Harvard-educated former lawyer dips heavily into her own life and adds research to craft pacy and prizewinning whodunits
Published on Jul 28, 2024 12:19 AM IST
Book Box | Meet storytelling guru Sid Jain
Sid Jain's journey from stock market whiz to the man who adapts books to screen is full of quirky life lessons, like how you can land a job without a resume
Published on Jul 20, 2024 08:55 PM IST
Doppelgangers and dissonance: When Neil Gaiman and Alice Munro disappoint
Find answers to a readers dilemma in three different books — an award-winning non-fiction, a classic and a sci-fi police procedural
Published on Jul 13, 2024 08:04 PM IST
The leadership lessons from these 10 inspiring memoirs
A search through a universe of memoirs throws up real-life stories with leadership lessons for students of management
Published on Jul 07, 2024 01:30 AM IST
Book Box | The book club that cracked the personality code
A summer reading group discovers archetypes and the power of reading for relationships
Published on Jun 29, 2024 11:33 PM IST
Book Box | Three unexpected ways to introduce yourself
Experimenting with tell-me-about-yourself questions reveals creative ways of connecting with people
Published on Jun 23, 2024 12:37 AM IST
Meet V.V (Sugi) Ganeshananthan, this year's Women's Prize for Fiction winner
Ganeshananthan, the writer of a novel set during the Sri Lankan civil war, talks about the term ‘terrorist’, feminist reading groups and the craft of writing
Published on Jun 17, 2024 06:31 PM IST
Book Box | The difficulty of raising children in virtual and real worlds
The Anxious Generation by Jonathon Haidt raises questions about the best ways to raise healthy and happy children in both the virtual and the real worlds.
Published on Jun 09, 2024 01:23 AM IST
Book Box | Meet the history buff turned spy writer Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre on the psychology of spies and how to turn historical facts into riveting spy novels
Published on Jun 02, 2024 01:39 AM IST
Book Box | Why we need spy stories
From spotting the liar, to sharpening our intuition, reading spy stories is a fun way to pick up smart skills
Published on May 25, 2024 06:42 PM IST
Book Box | My emotional reading journey through the Women's Prize shortlist
Six shortlisted titles set in Sri Lanka, Palestine, China, and the Aussie outback take me on an emotional journey to find the perfect Women's Prize for Fiction
Published on May 19, 2024 12:02 AM IST
Sara Rai's Raw Umber makes you crave the forgotten languages of your life
Read Raw Umber to hear Munshi Premchand’s granddaughter talk about her literary heritage and how she found her voice
Published on May 12, 2024 12:52 AM IST
Book Box | Goodbye Paul Auster and CJ Sansom, masters of mystery and intrigue
A tribute to mystery writers Paul Auster and C J Sansom, both of whom passed away in April, leaving behind their worlds of New York noir and Tudor England
Published on May 05, 2024 12:26 AM IST
Book Box | Why we must read Knife by Salman Rushdie
A different Rushdie, raw and vulnerable in his new memoir
Published on Apr 28, 2024 12:09 AM IST
Bakeries, bookstores, and beat poetry: A literary odyssey through San Francisco
A city transforms, a bookstore vanishes, but hope flourishes in hidden gems and rebellious verses.
Published on Apr 21, 2024 12:23 AM IST
Book Box | Unravelling the art of translation at London’s oldest bookstore
Two hot new reads are Charles Spencer’s boarding school memoir and the confessions of a Citibank trader. Plus, translations talk at London’s oldest bookstore.
Published on Apr 13, 2024 08:03 PM IST
Book Box | Meet Priya Narendra: The writer who loves badly behaved women
From reading stories of Noor Jehan and Elizabeth I to writing a rom com, this writer talks about her latest book on Indian women bosses
Updated on Apr 06, 2024 07:58 PM IST
Book Box | Goodbye Daniel Kahneman, whose life reads like a thriller
If you’d like to read about a brilliant economist who passed away recently and if you want to influence people, read these two books.
Published on Mar 31, 2024 11:33 PM IST
Book Box | A Chicago Bookstore Crawl
From a river dyed green to the Obamas' romantic haunt, a walk through Chicago's literary life.
Published on Mar 23, 2024 11:40 PM IST
Book Box | Mary Beard spills the tea (and rose petals) on Roman emperors
From power plays to poolside passion, this classics don reveals what we can learn from Roman history
Updated on Mar 16, 2024 08:40 PM IST
A book by a political scientist on chaos, black swans and the butterfly theory
In Fluke, author Brian Klaas brings up a question: If life is indeed all chaos and chance, how do we believe that everything we do matters?
Published on Mar 13, 2024 06:10 PM IST
Book Box | When I see a woman read
From stolen moments to public shields, the many meanings of a woman with a book
Published on Mar 09, 2024 09:00 PM IST