Category Books

Library Aunty

Most of the children who came to her library knew her only as Library Aunty and the name stuck.

Are Comics good or bad for children?

Comic books might not have literary value but those like Amar Chitra Katha have brought the myths, folk tales, epics and biographies within the grasp of even primary school children.

How chacha chaudhary made a reluctant reader love books

What an experienced librarian, a frantic mother and dozens of children reading books in our living room couldn’t do, was accomplished by a little girl, who turned the boy into a reader with her comics!

Why It Is Important To Grow Up With Stories

Create some magic moments for your child. Tell them stories!

The Summer I Fell Deeply In Love — With Books!

For me, magic was in that room filled with books in my grandfather’s house.

Bring On The E-book Recommendations! Better Still, Make Them Free! 

To be fair, for every bestseller, there is an equal number of reasonably good books that just do not make it, for dubious commercial reasons.

Is it safer to be one of the herd than listen to the heart?

We are seemingly living in the times of Winston Smith and Jerry, all caught up in a ‘Chocolate War’ of our own.

Why do our brains not run out of memory?

How does the brain ensure that there is sufficient space to store only the more important memories?

How important are memories to humans?

Memories are the basis of our history, culture, heritage — the very civilisation.

Book Review: Writing Across A Cracked World by Vamsee Juluri

This book opened my eyes to many things. What I’m most grateful to the author for, is to have shown me that my civilization and culture were being put on a stand for being the most wonderful system of thought there ever was in this cracked world of ours.

Prof. Yash Pal – From asking questions to answering them

Late Prof. Yash Pal loved children and their incessant questions. His book Random Curiosity is the result of that love.

Falling off the map with Pico Iyer – A Book Review

Pico Iyer’s ‘Falling off the Map’ is less a travel book and more a sociological study of the times in the Lonely Places he has talked about.