Posts by: Manjula Lal

Manjula Lal -April 4, 2019

Guests at this restaurant are usually neither saints nor sinners, just hard-working corporate types looking for live gigs and fusion food Gurugram’s Saints N Sinners is a ‘happening’ place in the real sense of the word, with karaoke on Wednesday, live bands (usually gigs by upcoming artists) from Thursday to Friday evenings and during Sunday […]

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Manjula Lal -March 29, 2019

There is only a demographic nightmare, no dividend, says former director of Infosys Mohandas Pai in the blurb of this book by award-winning financial journalist Goutam Das This book will not give you any easy answer to the political conundrums that are coming up repeatedly in election season: Did the NDA government make any dent […]

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Manjula Lal -March 22, 2019

The Indian voter is always ahead of politicians, ‘teaching them a lesson or two when necessary’, says this timely book by Prannoy Roy and Dorab R Sopariwala The timing is impeccable. The Verdict is out just two months before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Away from the din of campaign rallies and the cacophony of […]

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Manjula Lal -February 28, 2019

Varun Gandhi’s magnum opus is a comprehensive and anguished exploration of the missed opportunities and botched policies that have kept the marginal farmer mired in debt and deprivation The timing of this book is serendipitous, for a BJP Member of Parliament comes out with a book on the rural economy in the same winter that […]

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Manjula Lal -February 7, 2019

When a soldier goes Missing in Action, only families seem to care. A fiction based on this searing fact This work of fiction is based on facts – in fact, it was inspired by the author’s meetings with families of defence personnel who went missing in the 1971 Indo-Pak war. It was propelled by her […]

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Manjula Lal -January 31, 2019

On his way back from the Jaipur Litfest where he promoted his new book, this indian doctor settled in new zealand reveals his plans to bring genetic testing to india to help us finetune our diets Dr Sharad P Paul looks so young and trim, the ushers at the Museum of Natural Science in America […]

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Manjula Lal -January 10, 2019

If you are in the neighbourhood and know your ABC, a visit to the Delhi Book Fair under the clouded winter sky is intellectually stimulating Books will never be a fast moving consumer good, but that doesn’t mean Patanjali has not embraced the print business as it puts a finger in every piece. Under the […]

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Manjula Lal -December 20, 2018

…not for God and country. That is clearly what the book Fortune’s Soldier tells us about the motivations of the adventurers whom the East India Company brought to India in the 18th century Alex Rutherford is the pen name of London-based couple Diana Preston and her husband Michael, authors of the six-part series Empire of […]

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