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Book Box | Why I hug trees

Walk through forests and books to discover the healing power of trees

A forest path(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
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.

Bookseller Sherab at the Book Worm Manali(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
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

Breath by James Nestor(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
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.

The bookshelf in the study(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
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

Ender's Game(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
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

Holiday books(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
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.

The Artist’s Way(Sonya Dutta Choudhury )
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.

A browsing list of eight new and notable books for you(Sonya Dutta Choudhury )
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

Angie Kim (courtesy: Angie Kim)
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

 Sid Jain(Sonya Dutta Choudhury )
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

Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman and Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro(Sonya Dutta Choudhury )
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

10 memoirs with leadership lessons
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

Archetypes by Caroline Myss(Image from Caroline Myss's YouTube channel)
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

Sonya Dutta Choudhury(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
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

V.V (Sugi) Ganeshananthan and Brotherless Night(Women’s Prize)
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.

The Anxious Generation(Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
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

Ben Macintyre (Sonya Dutta Choudhury)
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

Agent Sonya by Ben Macintyre(Sonya Dutta Choudhury )
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

The Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist is enticing
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

Sara Rai(Courtesy: Sara Rai)
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

The books of Paul Auster and C J Sansom
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

Knife by Salman Rushdie(Author)
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.

City Lights Books, San Francisco(Author)
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.

Translators Donald Rayfield, Georgia de Chamberet & Dennis Duncan ( L to R) at Hatchards Piccadilly, London(Author)
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

Priya Narendra(picture courtesy Priya Narendra)
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.

The Undoing Project
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.

Exile in Bookville, Chicago(Author)
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

Mary Beard (Author)
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?

Brian Klaas(Courtesy: HachetteIndia)
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

A woman reads a book(Author)
Published on Mar 09, 2024 09:00 PM IST
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