Olivier Lafont, who wowed audiences and had them in splits with his hilarious role as Suhas Tandon in 3 Idiots, is showing more of his artistic talent with the publication of an epic fiction novel Warrior, published by P...

Koral Dasgupta’s book POWER OF A COMMON MAN - Connecting to Consumers the SRK Way is a unique book analyzing the consumer behavior and marketing techniques through the journey of the immensely successful King Khan. The b...

A wickedly far-ranging view of marketing success, consumer behavior and star power in India: that sums up Koral Dasgupta’s “Power of a Common Man: Connecting with Customers the SRK Way,” whose title evokes the tag-line o...

Best-selling author and award-winning journalist, Rahul Pandita will be on a US tour from October 21 to November 5, 2013. He will be in Naperville on Thursday, October 24. Rahul is the author of "Our Moon Has Blood Clots...

Book of the month: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn * Cheers! We have completed an entire year of our book-club, “Chai, Chat with Books”. We had our very first meeting in September 2012 hosted by Vasavi Chaka. This was followe...

After writing three books, has the writing taken on a new role, has it become a more creative thing for you or are you still focused solely on the philosophy? For me my stories have a core philosophy, the story is only t...

Book of the month : Paris Wife by Paula McLain Summer season was heralded by a hot discussion on the book of the month, ‘Paris Wife’. The book’s theme is the joys, trials and tribulations shared by Ernest Hemingway and h...

Murder, she writes! Put aside Agatha Christie, Patricia Cornwell and Ruth Rendell and pick up Kalpana Swaminathan, Madhulika Liddle or Swati Kaushal instead. The Indian sorority of women crime writers talk about how they...

Everyone agrees the United States needs to improve its education system dramatically, but how? One of the hottest trends in education reform lately is looking at the stunning success of the West's reigning education supe...

Book Of The Month : “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga “Go to Old Delhi, and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundreds of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cag...

Technology and Modern Life Technology has transformed how we communicate, work, and live. Understanding technology's role in society is essential for the modern world. The Speed of Change Technological change accelerates...

Chai, Chat with Books" is a small group of eight ladies who share their passion for reading over a cup of tea and lots of chaat/snacks. Our book club meeting is a time away from the daily grind of life...

The Summer Writing Program will end on July 26. There has been a lot of queries for providing the lessons all year along . We are still thinking about it ..... Please keep emailing and calling us -we might actually start...

The Aakash tablet, developed through a partnership between the Indian government and the Canadian company DataWind and manufactured in India, was presented in 2011 and 2012 as a technological breakthrough that could tran...

When Snigdha Nandipati won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in 2012, correctly spelling "guetapens" — a French-origin word meaning an ambush or trap — she became the fifth consecutive Indian-American champion of the com...

The proposal, which circulated in various forms in online discussions and was attributed in some versions to a British scientist, was straightforward and alarming in equal measure: barcode every person at birth, creating...

Salman Rushdie, who has more personal experience with the consequences of censorship than almost any living writer — his 1988 novel The Satanic Verses prompted a fatwa calling for his death, forced him into hiding for ne...

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, whose novels have mapped the interior lives of Indian and Indian-American women with a precision that has won her millions of readers across languages and continents, spoke in an interview abo...

Bill Gates has been cast as many things over the decades — college dropout turned tech visionary, ruthless monopolist, philanthropist attempting to rewrite his legacy, global health crusader. But a comic book hero? That...

Your Brain on Fiction AMID the squawks and pings of our digital devices, the old-fashioned virtues of reading novels can seem faded, even futile. But new support for the value of fiction is arriving from an unexpected qu...

A small change in how teachers and parents read aloud to preschoolers may provide a big boost to their reading skills later on, a new study found. That small change involves making specific references to print in books w...

When Dhiraj Kumar wrote "The Asocial Networking," he tapped into a tension that millions of Indians quietly recognize: the growing chasm between the curated self we project online and the person we actually are in our li...

TRAIN TO PAKISTAN Chatto and Windus published Khushwant Singh’s novel “Train to Pakistan” in 1956. It’s a 181-page novel and is available in both paperback and hardback. It’s a novel, which catches your attention from th...

Understanding Harry Potter The topic "Harry Potter" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoughtful engagement requires nuance and multiple perspectives. Multiple Perspecti...

J.K. Rowling's announcement of her first novel for adults — titled The Casual Vacancy — landed with the kind of anticipatory weight that only applies to writers who have achieved genuine cultural saturation. Having creat...

When an apple fell on Newton’s head , he did not just consume it to satisfy his hunger , au contraire he used it as an excuse to get into the depth of the process to learn more , there by discovering Gravity . It is basi...

Understanding The Pronouns you use reveals your whole personality The topic "The Pronouns you use reveals your whole personality" addresses an important contemporary issue or experience. Rather than simple answers, thoug...

Our lives are like streams that fall over rocky cliffs before they can reach the ocean" and "then all the struggle and hardship suffered bleeds into a wash , just like watery ink on paper ‘’-- pearls of wisdom by SAYURI...

The question of how hard to push children toward academic achievement sits at the intersection of love, anxiety, and competing theories about what actually produces successful, happy adults. There are no easy answers, bu...

I went to the doctor because I had a fever, I made a mistake and punched Justin Beiber I went to Walgreens to get a visa, I made a mistake and got a pizza :) I went to school to learn the alphabet, I made a mistake and g...

In case you needed further proof of the American education system's failings, especially in poor and minority communities, consider the latest crime to spread across the country: educational theft. That's the charge that...

Venkat Subramaniam Adishankara Tanikaburla (VSAT), needless to say, from Andhra, while studying engineering, falls in love with Anjali Cariappa, a Coorgi girl, whose father is a retired colonel and who believes that good...

You wake up suddenly in the middle of the night, sweaty, little out of breath, a tad confused, maybe you’ve been dreaming, you have experienced a roller coaster ride of emotions; you are nervous, tense, and anxious. You...

Understanding Indian Politics India's politics is complex—federal system, multiple languages, religions, castes, and classes create extraordinary diversity. Understanding Indian politics requires understanding this diver...

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, "It's a girl." -Shirley Chisholm The very words “It’s a girl” are considered inauspicious and are a source of disappointment f...

Arun Shourie, the journalist, author, and former government minister whose intellectual breadth and willingness to challenge received wisdom in Indian public life have made him one of its most distinctive voices, has wri...

Just like the lotus flower which blooms and opens up its outer petals to reveal the inner whorl , this book also unfolds layers of the saga called Mahabharata in a form which acts as both a guide and an interpreter of li...

In a publishing landscape flooded with young adult fantasy, K.S. Krueger's debut novel Traegonia: The Sunbow Prophecy manages to carve out something genuinely its own. It is the kind of book that belongs to the tradition...

Books about learning how to learn occupy a peculiar niche in the self-help genre — they make a claim that is simultaneously obvious (of course the method of learning matters, not just the effort) and genuinely underappre...

This is one of the coolest health books I've ever read. Certainly the most adventurous. Allright, I admit I'm a little biased. Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Body is, to my knowledge, the first book that's ever had my name as...

Here is a very interesting interview of Steve Jobs after he was just kicked out of Apple in 1985. He doesn't beat around the bush on getting fired and his disappointment. However what's even more remarkable is how he has...

Taking a test is not just a passive mechanism for assessing how much people know, according to new research. It actually helps people learn, and it works better than a number of other studying techniques. ( found that st...

Children's literature at its best does something that adult fiction rarely attempts: it treats genuinely difficult questions — loss, fear, injustice, the search for belonging — with an honesty that adults have often trai...

Part travelogue, part love letter, part autobiography, Shantaram is a vivid, entertaining but slightly grandiose tale of Lin, an ex-junkie and convicted robber who escapes from an Australian prison then hides in the most...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates, legendary mergers-and-acquisition attorney Joe Flom, computer pioneer Bill Joy: What is it about these people that enabled them to achieve such remarkable success? The answer, Malcolm Gladwe...

Barack Obama's announcement that he would donate the proceeds of his children's book to a scholarship fund for the children of fallen and disabled American military service members arrived in November 2010 at a moment wh...

the product of 15 months of intensive work within Facebook dubbed "Project Titan," has received intensive attention in the tech media in recent days based on the speculation that it would in one fell swoop eclipse the wo...

Facial recognition technology was advancing faster than the legal and regulatory frameworks designed to govern it—and in 2012, a wave of startups and established tech companies were competing to build the most accurate c...

The used book economy in Indian cities has always operated in the informal register — the pavement stalls near college campuses, the secondhand shops in old city neighborhoods, the informal networks where students pass t...

The diet industry has sold the idea of rapid weight loss so effectively that many people arrive at the beginning of a weight management effort believing that the speed of loss is a virtue in itself — that losing 10 pound...