Book Box: Equal, Yet Different
2 years, 4 months ago

Book Box: Equal, Yet Different

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I am to meet with a storyteller and I have volunteered my house. They come from different corners of the city - Sion, Wadala, Malad, Malabar Hill and Mid-town, they’ve brought food and drink and copies of the storyteller's book. Stories from vantage points around ‘Equal Yet Different’. On Bad Bosses ‘My first boss was the worst - she’d summon me late every evening - send me back and forth for micro corrections - she was demanding with everybody, but as the most junior girl on the team, I got the worst of it, and I didn’t how to deal with it’ On the Difficulty of Articulating Ambition Even to Oneself ‘Sure I could be the Chief Marketing Officer. Slowly people started to recognise us as partners.’ A few days ago, on an online book discussion, there were book recommendations to help with being a better leader.

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Book Box | The Best Books of 2024
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Book Box | The Best Books of 2024

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2024 has been a mixed reading year for me. Books like Brotherless Night, a historical fiction set during the Sri Lanka Civil War, won this year’s Women’s Prize. Best Fiction - I discovered Angie Kim in last year’s best book lists, many of which featured Happiness Falls, which I loved. Best non-fiction 2024 Best Non-fiction - Every now and then …

Book Box: Are You in a Reading Race?
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Book Box: Are You in a Reading Race?

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Dear Reader, A view of a bookstore. Shortlist for the 2024 Women’s Fiction Prize Other reading deadlines come from our favourite communities – the book clubs. And there are many of these - the celebrity book clubs, the online book clubs, the offline book groups, reading communities like Gurgaon Reads or Juhu Reads that are mushrooming in every city. And …

Book Box | Fast-paced feel-good books
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Book Box | Fast-paced feel-good books

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These last few days, on trips from the market, my backpack has been bursting — butter and baking powder for apple crumble, bread, eggs, lettuce and tomatoes for sandwiches. Starter Villain Book 1 of 4: Starter Villain by John Scalzi: PG Wodehouse meets Douglas Adams in this snarky sci-fi story set in a start-up world where villains rule the world. …

Book Box | My emotional reading journey through the Women's Prize shortlist
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Book Box | My emotional reading journey through the Women's Prize shortlist

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When I look at a literary shortlist, I want to read all the books on it. The books are set in different countries and times — River East, River West in China, Enter Ghost in Israel-Palestine, Brotherless Night in Sri Lanka, Restless Dolly Maunder in nineteenth-century Australia, The Wren, The Wren and Soldier Sailor in Ireland. I head for my …

Book Box | Meet Priya Narendra: The writer who loves badly behaved women
9 months ago

Book Box | Meet Priya Narendra: The writer who loves badly behaved women

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She was the girl with the American accent. I was awed to hear Priya had written Two Chalet School Girls in India, a book in my favourite boarding school series – the Chalet School by Elinor M Brent-Dyer. I love ‘badly behaved women’ – those are the ones that make history, aren’t they? The first chapter I wrote – Juggernaut …

Book Box: A trailblazing economist's memoir who helped build today's India
1 year, 4 months ago

Book Box: A trailblazing economist's memoir who helped build today's India

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I am at dinner. Send it to me, I can help you.’" Sixty years later Devaki writes this book, titling it in tribute to The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, explaining why she has chosen a brass notebook over a golden notebook. The Brass Notebook and The Golden Notebook Back to Devaki, who says, "I was never an influential academic …

Book Box: A Guide to Help Women Get Rich
1 year, 9 months ago

Book Box: A Guide to Help Women Get Rich

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I am standing outside the school gate, with a gaggle of mothers. I’ve written about Let's Talk Money in hacking your financial life, because, really, there is no better book on personal finance in India. Rand’s writing may be dated in its setting, but one must consider reading her work to get perspective on money beliefs and how they impact …

Book Box: The Goddess, the Writer of Science, and Women Who Fight
1 year, 10 months ago

Book Box: The Goddess, the Writer of Science, and Women Who Fight

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I’ve been preoccupied by images of goddesses. I’ve followed Saini with fascination ever since I read Inferior, her book on women and science. There are just so many good things to say about The Patriarchs, from the book’s fluency and flow to the unbelievable lightness of its erudition — but here’s a one sentence pitch instead — if you’d like …

Book Box: Best Book Club Reads of 2022
2 years ago

Book Box: Best Book Club Reads of 2022

Hindustan Times  

It’s mid December in Mumbai, with a whiff of the holidays, time to sit outdoors all weekend with book talk. And often, we ended up changing our opinion on a character or even on the book - ‘Hmm, you may have a point, I never thought of it that way.’ Sometimes, we were lucky to have an author join us, …

Book Box: How to fall in love with books (again)
2 years, 5 months ago

Book Box: How to fall in love with books (again)

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“Did you really read 100 books last year?” I get asked. A trip to a bookstore is a pocket of quiet reading time, it’s a crash course in the latest book releases, and when you buy books there, you are helping local bookstores stay alive. I talk to her at her Bethesda home, via email and phone, on reading goals …

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