Manjula Lal

Musical fusion

Musical fusion

Guests at this restaurant are usually neither saints nor sinners, just hard-working corporate types looking for live gigs and fusion…

April 4, 2019

No assembly line for jobs

There is only a demographic nightmare, no dividend, says former director of Infosys Mohandas Pai in the blurb of this…

March 29, 2019

Number-crunching at its best

The Indian voter is always ahead of politicians, ‘teaching them a lesson or two when necessary’, says this timely book…

March 22, 2019

A discovery of rural India

Varun Gandhi’s magnum opus is a comprehensive and anguished exploration of the missed opportunities and botched policies that have kept…

February 28, 2019

Love in the time of war

When a soldier goes Missing in Action, only families seem to care. A fiction based on this searing fact This…

February 7, 2019

Putting skin in the game

On his way back from the Jaipur Litfest where he promoted his new book, this indian doctor settled in new…

February 1, 2019

Getting lost in the mela

If you are in the neighbourhood and know your ABC, a visit to the Delhi Book Fair under the clouded…

January 14, 2019

For fame or fortune…

…not for God and country. That is clearly what the book Fortune’s Soldier tells us about the motivations of the…

December 20, 2018

Rx: Know your doc

The truth about doctors is stranger than the fictions we watch on TV, as these outpourings by a gynaecologist describe…

December 13, 2018