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9 books you should read this Christmas for those festive feels
With finals over and Christmas-sy vibes all around, everyone deserves to sit down with a cuppa and read a good book as you sip through the warmth of the coffee, whether you’re a reader or not. 1. A...
View ArticleBook Review: A Silent Promise by Namrata Gupta
If you’re somewhere between your late-teens and early-twenties, then you should be sure to relate to every word in the text. For readers younger, parts of the book describe certain universal emotions...
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Humour in print: Book List
According to Bob Newhart, “The only way to survive is to have a sense of humour.” In fact, humour is your best bet, your most potent weapon, against the mortal struggle for existence called ‘Life’. A...
View ArticleWhy you should visit the Book Fair at least once as a student
This time arrives every year, when all book lovers excitedly queue outside the gates of Pragati Maidan, waiting to treat their eyes and minds to an abundance of books and all things literary. As is...
View ArticleBook Review: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
Isn’t it always a pleasure to read books about reading? Isn’t it always a pleasure to read about characters that unfold as the plot proceeds? Isn’t it always a sheer delight when a feel-good book...
View ArticleBook Review: Lost Wisdom of the Swastika, Turiya tales by Ajay Chaturvedi
This ingenious book can convert despair into a ray of hope, and can undoubtedly prove to you that there is always light at the end of a tunnel. As people living in a fast-paced world, we are constantly...
View ArticleBooks sharing revolution sweeps DU
Nearly every college has a book club and a literary society but still every book reader in DU buy books from various sources. Why can’t we easily borrow/lend books with book readers in our college and...
View ArticleBook Review: Love Forever @ Rajpath by Kalpana Mishra
At some point of time, all of us meet someone likeable at our workplace and tend to build up a good relationship because our thoughts and opinions match. But how often does it materialise to something...
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Book Review: Yama by Kevin Missal
The concept of Doctor Faustus is something that has been used by writers/artists/musicians/filmmakers throughout the world. One man set out to change the world by killing people with criminal records,...
View ArticleBook Review: Dreamcatcher by Rosheena Zehra
The wings of human mind often fly us into the universe of thoughts and feelings. Dreamcatcher makes the reader take a roller coaster ride into the life of the protagonist Zoya. It unravels the journey...
View ArticleBook Review: Caught in the web of modern romance with The Last Seen Romantic
Arjun Dutt’s The Last Seen Romantic is a tale of the virtual world, love and distance combining as a recipe for almost – disaster for its protagonist. Exploring being overwhelmed by social media and...
View ArticleReads for the Mid-Sem Break
Haven’t picked up a novel in the last three months? Or tried to pick one up but never got past the first couple of chapters? Who has the time, you say. What with that mounting pile of course work,...
View ArticleBook Review- ‘Red Lipstick: The Men In My Life’
Red Lipstick: The Men In My Life is an autobiographical work by Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, a famous transgender activist. It is written from a first person perspective, essentially being a trajectory of...
View ArticleBouncing Back from Reading Slumps
There are some who delight in conversations or movies, while there are some who find peace only in pages embellished with printed words. But when this only resort to peace doesn’t arouse happiness like...
View ArticleBook Review- The Burning Forest: India’s war in Bastar
“The first casualty when a war comes, is truth”, this quote stares straight at times when people sit to discuss wars. History has been the best witness of how often truth has been molded by victors of...
View ArticleBook Review: “Choices” by Shivshankar Menon
Foreign Policy formation of a country which is filled with infinite diversities is not a child’s play. The recent book by Shivshankar Menon, the former National Security Advisor and foreign secretary...
View ArticleBook Review: Up Campus, Down Campus
With posters of ‘Free Nelson Mandela’, ‘Ganga Dhaba’ and ‘Red Flags’ the left dominant culture of Jawaharlal Lal Nehru University (JNU) could never have been a more better cover for a book that...
View ArticleBook Review – Twilight in Delhi by Ahmed Ali
The classic novel, set in Delhi of 1911-1919 with the backdrop of colonial rule and Indian independence struggle, chronicles the rapidly changing socio-political happenings through the eyes of Mir...
View Article10 Best epistolary novels that you must read
Sneaking into someone’s personal diary or letters is a temptation we all succumb to, so when it comes to epistolary novels one simply cannot resist. They are intimate, vivid, honest, and raw and seep...
View ArticleTwo new Harry Potter books set to arrive this October
On 18th July, 2017, the coveted publisher Bloomsbury, based in the UK, announced in a business statement that this October will mark the release of two new books about the magical world of Harry Potter...
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