If you want to know how Chennai became a centre of excellence in India for diabetes prevention and care, this is the book for you. In ‘Making excellence a habit’, Dr V Mohan an eminent diabetologist in Chennai, tells an absorbing story of how his father, the
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The voices of Afghan women, through a collection of stories put together in the book My pen is the wing of a bird (Hachette), touch your heart with the two powerful and contrasting emotions they express — violence and yearning… violence is their reality and yearning is
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Stories I must tell Author : Kabir Bedi Publisher : Westland Pages : 319; Rs.256 From the first magical encounter with The Beatles as a student in Delhi to working as an interviewer for All India Radio
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The Thinnai Author : Ari Gautier Publisher : Hachette Pages : 186; Rs.399 In this delightful book, originally written in French, Ari Gautier takes us through the unglamorous district of Kurusukuppam, Pondicherry,
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Service Above Self – The Biography of M K Panduranga Setty Author : Vedam Jaishankar M Satyanarayan Publisher : Vimal Publication Pages : 292 With a foreword by RI President
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Shashi Tharoor is a mesmeric speaker and prolific writer (he brings out a book every year) as everyone knows, but his fondness for big words is a myth. Good communication in speech or writing is a matter of using the right word, as Tharoor has said often.
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The Gilded Ones Author : Namina Forna Publisher : Delacorte Pages : 432; Rs.1,545 A unique and female-centred fantasy, this is the story of Deka who has spent the first sixteen years of her life
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The amazing human body Author : M V Ravikumar Publisher : Kaveri Trust Pages : 76; Rs.99 A compilation of interesting facts about the various organs and systems of the human body. Written in simple
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When Schindler’s List the film was released, in 1993, it created a sensation. What many don’t know is that the manner in which this true story was unearthed by a writer in Australia is even more sensational. Thomas Keneally then went on to publish the book, Schindler’s
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It was the docu-series Bad Boy Billionaires that finally pushed me to read The Billionaire Raj by James Crabtree, published by Tim Duggan Books. This beautifully bound item featuring on its dust jacket the Ambanis’s home Antilia reaching disjointedly up into a purple sky had landed on
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Romancing the Heart Author : Dr Akshaya Mehta Publisher : Kindle Edition Pages : 320; Rs.285 Keeping both the young and old in mind, Dr Akshay Mehta lays out affordable, effective and universally available means to a healthy heart
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