New Delhi, July 10, 2021: The Vice President, M Venkaiah Naidu today received the first copy of the English translation of Thummeti Raghothama Reddy’s book on Terrace gardening- ‘Terrace Garden: Midde Thota’. The book, originally written in Telugu, chronicles Reddy’s successful journey of developing a fruitful terrace gardening practice at Naarapalle, Hyderabad. Naidu commended the […]
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Government launches YUVA – Prime Minister’s Scheme For Mentoring Young Authors
New Delhi, May 30, 2021: The Ministry of Education, Department of Higher Education yesterday launched YUVA- Prime Minister’s Scheme For Mentoring Young Authors, an Author Mentorship programme to train young and budding authors (below 30 years of age) in order to promote reading, writing and book culture in the country, and project India and Indian […]
Book review: High Andes
Book review: High Andes Author: Rolf Margenau ISBN: 978-0-9882311-3-9 There are many wonderful and talented independent authors’ books I have read and re-read during the lockdown. This is also one of them. So much so, that I often wonder why our cinematic geniuses never set their eyes on them and utilize the plots to render […]
When Eagles Roar: The Amazing Journey of an African Wildlife Adventurer
Book: When Eagles Roar Author: James Alexander Currie with Bonnie J. Fladung ISBN: 0990766004 ISBN-13: 978-0990766001 South Africa is a place for travel enthusiasts. We all have read so much about wildlife safaris that most of us dream of seeing wildlife in action at least some point in our lives. But, for those of us […]
Book review: My Watery Self written by Dr. Stephen Spotte
My Watery Self Author: Dr. Stephen Spotte Publisher: Three Rooms Press ISBN: 978-1-941110-16-4 My watery Self makes for gripping reading and the fine thing about it is that it is able to transport a reader straight first into the tender years of the author and his friends and grants us an insight into how his […]
Book Review: Satan’s Lullaby is a good book to read at tea time!
Author: Priscilla Royal Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press ISBN: 978-1-4642-0356-5 Satan’s Lullaby by Priscilla Royal is an engaging book to be read while sipping tea or simply at bedtime. It is a nice book for television adaption (in my humble opinion) and makes for an easy read. The book is easy on eyes as the language […]
Book Review: The Porter’s Wife will make you shed many tears
The Porter’s Wife Author: Lisa Brown Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing ISBN: 978-1-62287-503-0 The Porter’s Wife is an excellent story of a journey of a common hardworking woman in turmoil. Can ‘eternal’ love happen twice? Is it cheating if a woman seeks a new hope or a new relationship when the first is no more? […]
28th edition of New Delhi World Book Fair 2020 inaugurated
Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nisank’ inaugurated the 28th edition of New Delhi World Book Fair 2020 (NDWBF) at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi today. Eminent Gandhian scholar, Prof. GirishwarMisra; Chairman, National Book Trust, Prof. Govind Prasad Sharma; Joint Secretary, MHRD, Madan Mohan, Rajesh Aggarwal, Executive Director, ITPO and other officials were present […]
India’s border history is now going to be written!
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has given approval for initiating work of writing the history of the country’s border. The Minister held a meeting with eminent personalities of Indian Council of Historical Research and officials of Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Directorate General of Archives, Ministry of Home Affairs, Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of […]
Books chronicling minority rights violation runs into Islamist wall in Bangladesh
Sitangshu Guha is a journalist and writer based in the USA, but his roots are in Bangladesh and he has spent a lot of time in the country documenting violent incidents against minorities. Two books of his published in 2019 made an appearance in the February bookfair in Dhaka. The names of the books are […]