Letters for a Nation from Jawaharlal Nehru by Madhav Khosla
From 1947 to 1963, Jawaharlal Nehru was the prime minister of India. He had a tough task to lay the ground for a new...
The Last King in India - Wajid Ali Shah by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Biographies of historical figures stitched together using the material available with a bit of imagination acting as a thread can be very interesting -...
The Case for India by Will Durant - Book Review
Written in 1930, at the peak of Indian freedom struggle, by a visiting American historian - this is book The Case for India, that...
Legendotes of Hyderabad by Narendra Luther
Narendra Luther is a leading authority on Hyderabad. Having authored many books on the city and its various aspects like rocks etc. In this...
Land of the Seven Rivers by Sanjeev Sanyal
Land of the Seven Rivers or Sapta-Sindhu, that is how India has always been known. Despite its ever-changing political borders. Despite rulers who came...
Finding Forgotten Cities by Nayanjot Lahiri
Historian Nayanjot Lahiri traces the history of the discovery of Indus Valley Civilization. Most of us only know in one sentence that John Marshall...
The East India Company by Gurcharan Das, Tirthankar Roy
The East India Company is the third book in the series ‘The Story of Indian Business’. It takes you through the journey of probably...
Merchants of Tamilakam by Kanakalatha Mukund
Merchants of Tamilakam is the second book in the series ‘The Story of Indian Business’. Talks about the maritime trade in the southern coastal...
Arthashastra - The Science of Wealth by Thomas R Trautmann
This small book tries to bring the mighty Arthashastra to you and does so very effectively. It does not take you through the academic...
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
What a book! A Short History of Nearly Everything takes you through the history of the world. Or should I say universe, as it...
