By Madhusree Chatterjee----
Book: \"Himalayan Wonderland, Travels in Lahaul and Spiti\"; Publisher: Penguin/Viking; Author: Manohar Singh Gill (union sports minister); Price: Rs.599
In the summer of 1962, a restless young Indian administrator, Manohar Singh Gill, made an arduous journey from the north Indian plains to the farthest reaches of Indian Himalayas - the Lahaul and Spiti Valley - and spent a year living and working with the people there.
By M.R. Narayan Swamy-----
The book, "A Powderkeg in Paradise", is not a historical account of the Tamil separatist campaign that bled Sri Lanka for a quarter century before the military finally decimated the Tamil Tigers in May 2009. In nearly 250 crisp and easy to read pages, Jon Oskar Solnes delves into his rich and intimate knowledge of the conflict, gained as an official of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM), to tell the world why and how the once seemingly indestructible Tamil Tigers lost it so badly.
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New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) Captain Gopinath, the founder of low-cost carrier Air Deccan which revolutionised India's aviation sector, Tuesday launched his book titled "Simply Fly" which talks about his life and the making of the private airline.
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By Madhusree Chatterjee------
New Delhi, Feb 9 (IANS) Acclaimed Irish novelist and Booker prize winner Roddy Doyle is going back to the heydays of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in his new book.
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By Madhusree Chatterjee----
New Delhi, Feb 8 (IANS) There may have been a last-minute rush of visitors, but the 19th World Book Fair left many publishers complaining of poor sales and inadequate arrangements. Organisers, however, insist that the volume of international trade was substantially larger this year....
By Vivek Shukla---- New Delhi, Feb. 8: While the World Book Fair concluded here on Sunday amid a rush of last-minute visitors and a show paying tribute to the cultural diversity of India,many publishers have dearly missed former Prime Minister Mr.Atal Behari Vajpayee and Dr. S.K.Somaiya,Chairman of the Somaiya Publications in the fair. Both of them were regular visitors to the fair....
By Madhusree Chatterjee----
New Delhi, Feb 5 (IANS) Graphic novels, the illustrated avatar of the conventional storybook, are gradually making their presence felt in the country, offering a wider bouquet of Indian and foreign titles and even roping in Bollywood filmmakers for racy scripts.
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Los Angeles, Feb 4 (IANS) "The Politician", an insider account of former US vice-presidential candidate John Edwards' extra-marital affair with his campaign videographer amid the 2007 nomination campaign, has become online bestseller in the US.
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By Azera Rahman----
New Delhi, Feb 3 (IANS) So you think children these days are simply not reading as much as they did in the past? The publishing industry doesn't seem to think so. They say the recession period saw the sale of children's books go up and make profits.
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By Madhusree Chatterjee----
Jaipur, Jan 25 (IANS) Acclaimed writer Louis de Bernieres, who made headlines with his 1994 novel "Captain Corelli's Mandolin", says his new book is about his grandfather and is set in India, Pakistan and Britain. Interestingly, the novel is partly a ghost story too.
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