Falling Walls & MIrror Wandering by Upendranath Sharma About the Book: Falling Walls (2015) and In the City a MIrror Wandering (2019) follow the trials and tribulations of a young writer called Chetan as he navigates the cities of Jalandhar, Lahore and Shimla in the 1930s. About the Author: Upendranath Sharma "Ashk" (1910 - 1996) began his writing career with […]
Apeirogon by Colum McCann About the Novel: Apeirogon (long listed for the Booker Prize 2020) explores the conflict in the Middle East. The story follows two real life figures - Rami Elhanan, an Israeli graphic designer, and Bassam Aramin, a Palestinian scholar and previous political prisoner. The book consists of 1001 short sections and […]
Gyaanadab & The Book Club Pune presents ABOUT THE BOOK Singing in the Dark is described as “an anthology of poetry under Lockdown”. It incorporates compositions of contemporary Indian poets. It is published by Penguin / Random House ABOUT THE EDITORS Satchidanandan is a leading Indian poet. His poems have been translated into many […]
James Wales: Artist and Antiquarian in the time of Peshwa Sawai Madhavrao About the Book: This book allows us to enter and witness late 18th century India through the journals and paintings left behind by an observant artist and antiquarian. James Wales came to India and developed a passion for the antiquities of the country. He left […]
About the Author: Justin Marozzi read History at Cambridge. A former Financial Times foreign correspondent, he writes regularly for The Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Financial Times and the Spectator where he was a contributing Editor until disappearing to Central Asia to research this book. About the Book: Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, Conqueror of the […]
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad About the Author: Joseph Conrad, born in Poland, learned English in his 20s and became a British citizen. A sailor, he wrote about adventures at sea and of the strangeness of people he met around the world. An early Modernist, he was a prolific writer and has left behind […]
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami About the novel: The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realises, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - the Q […]
Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man by U R Ananthamurthy About theBook: “Samskara: A Rite for a Dead Man” by UR Ananthamurthy has been hailed as a classic of modern world literature. The story, set in a fictional village in the 1940s, revolves around the death of a man who has no son to […]
