Madhav Gadgil’s ‘A Walk up to the Hill: Living with People and Nature’ has something for everyone. For the nature lover, there are anecdotes of elephants, birds, and histories of various regions. The researcher can...
‘The Half Known Life: In Search of Paradise’ is a combination of musings, travels back in time, and actual wandering. It goes back and forth in time, drawing on Pico Iyer’s travels with his Japanese wife or the...
In 2023, the author’s Sharvan Nana has turned 100 and is in bed. His stories of cricket, Pakistan, and Ganges have also aged with him. He hopes he would recognise him and yearns for a story of pandubbis of Ganges, which he...
Artist and puppeteer Sudipta Mukherjee Mandal writes about travelling and a mountain tea shack that she found on a trekking trip.
Shantashree Mohanty writes about a day in her life as a writer. She receives the advice towards the end of the day that it’s better to be a failing writer than to write failingly and that Sylvia Plath and all her friends...
For more than a century, hill people from far and wide were attracted like flying insects by the lights of Darjeeling. Their stories are strewn around every bend in the roads of the town. These are stories of pluck and...
Age is not a bar for Eddie Jaku, the 103-year-old Holocaust survivor, who shared his story after he turned 100. In writing about some of the worst atrocities of human history in ‘The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful...
Hollywood Actor Russell Crowe will star in Julian Avery's film 'The Pope's Exorcist'. It is based on the memoirs of Father Gabriel Amorth, who performed over 100,000 exorcisms for the Vatican.
Actor Simon Pegg struggled with alcoholism after writing his memoir 'Nerd Do Well' in 2009. He is known for his roles in 'Mission Impossible' and 'Ice Age'...
In his novels, Silas House deflly captures the varied landscapes of the American South, both emotional and physical. The eight essays in Silas House, which...
Those who write memoirs come out the other side. Much like the dramatic arc of a story, the memoir is the resolution. A memoir is more than just...
