Yearly Archives

2018

Oct Nov 18

EDITORIAL Books will never lose charm and so will bookshops and book fairs! PUBLISHING NEWS FAIR ABROAD Celebrating 70 years of Frankfurter Buchmesse! LEADERSHIP Believe in yourself! DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION 'As a South Asian woman in…

Meet Monica Malhotra Kandhari

Monica Malhotra Kandhari, a second-generation entrepreneur, is the Managing Director of MBD Group. She started working at the young age of 15 and today she manages the entire gamut of businesses of MBD Group of companies (publishing,…

Book Releases

Yoga shakti awaken your own power Author: Shailaja Menon Publisher: Niyogi Books (Pp 179, ISBN 978-93-86906-44-1, Rs 495) Ever wondered what yoga is really all about? Is it simply about being twisted into different positions like a pretzel…

Brief Answers to the Big Questions

Author: Stephen Hawking Publisher: John Murray (17 October 2018) (Hardcover: 256 pages, ISBN-13: 978-1473695986)) The final book from Professor Stephen Hawking, the bestselling author of a brief history of time and arguably the most famous…

Seekers of the Naked Truth

Author: Paul LeValley Publisher: Motilal Banarasidass Publishers (Pp 464, ISBN 978-81-208-4169-7, Rs 1000) The Gymnosophists were a small religious group in India. They lasted only two centuries. But in their last days, they happened to…

After Yesterday and Other Stories

Author: Appadurai Muttulingam Translator: Padma Narayanan Publisher: Ratna Books (Pp 202, ISBN 978-93-86600-45-5, Rs 299) Here is another literary marvel from Ratna Books. These stories were originally written in Tamil. They are serious but…

Claudia

Author: Sophia Lorena Benjamin Publisher: Olive Turtle, an imprint of Niyogi Books (Pp 252, ISBN 978-93-86906-29-8, Rs 395) Set in 1961, Claudia is a young girl, who lives in Goa, which was then a part of Portugal. Claudia falls for her…

Screwed

Author: Varun Singh Publisher: Diamond Books (Pp 186, ISBN 978-93-5296-185-6, Rs 195) The book is a look at the corporate culture where people just want to rise high, they have no emotions and they can go to any extent to get things done…

Miracles of Yantra

Author: P Khurrana Publisher: Teenage Publishers (Pp 192, ISBN 978-93-85385438, Rs 299) The author P. Khurrana has been pursuing the study of Yantra-Mantra-Tantra since the age of 18. In this book, he has written about the power and…