Hailed as one of the most talented players to ever step onto a tennis court, Borg collected the game's highest honours, including eleven Grand Slam titles - with five consecutive Wimbledon titles — establishing himself as one of the greatest of all time
This book not only brings you folk stories, myths and details of local and cultural beliefs about these animals, but also information about the roles they play in shaping modern pop-culture and scientific inquiry – leading to breakthroughs that can save lives.
The ninth edition of the Kerala Literature Festival will have delegations from 17 countries. At the Delhi curtain raiser, Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor spoke about the power of translations and what to expect at Kozhikode Beach from January 22-26.
Written with the precision of a lawyer’s brief and based on an extraordinary ability to connect with people associated with the crimes, his three oral histories are a must read
In this sensitively written book, award-winning writer, Jerry Pinto delves into the realm of palliative care through intimate stories of patients, families and devoted caregivers
In this provocative book, The Sensual Self: Explorations of Love, Sex & Romance, bestselling author Shobhaa Dé asks you to ditch the rulebook and ‘abandon good sense’ when it comes to owning your sensuality.
Uncoded: A Technological History of Independent India is a story of one of the greatest technological transformations in the modern world.
The Hiroshima Men's unique narrative recounts the decade-long journey towards this first atomic attack.
In this diagnosis of contemporary Indian society, with a tinge of dark humour, acclaimed writer Manu Joseph explores why the poor don’t rise in revolt against the rich despite living in one of the most unequal regions of the world.
Digital arrests and other versions of online scamming are the stuff of contemporary headlines. Snigdha Poonam went beyond the headlines to take a deep dive into the world inhabited by these scamsters in ‘Scamlands: Inside the Asian empire of fraud that preys on the world’. She tells Moneycontrol about what pushes them to take to scamming and why they can never leave
Dr. Urjit Patel’s new book is a sober reckoning with the 21st century’s most potent yet misunderstood weapon — economic sanctions. It is a timely reminder that what can be used as leverage abroad could just as easily become a liability at home
Gautam Bhatia on editing the annual 'IF' anthology series of Indian speculative fiction, speculative fiction vs science fiction, themes and timelines in Indian speculative fiction, why sci-fi is a genre of modernity, and how and when it came to India.
By building on the effectiveness of what GTD does for individuals, Team will offer a better way of working in an organisation, while simultaneously nourishing a culture that allows individuals' skills to flourish
Rahul Pandita’s debut novel Our Friends in Good Houses follows a journalist’s foray into war zones. A journalist by vocation, he takes Moneycontrol through the difference between reporting and fiction, among other things.
The Dark-Coloured Waters is as much the story of a river as it is of a man shaped by its course.
The Russian countryside is of infinite beauty; just imagine endless stretches of golden wheat. It is a pity I am not a writer; I lack words to convey my feelings.
Upheavals of the 20th century triggered migrations and relationships that make most countries a cultural and social mosaic. India’s no exception. Chandana Dey unearthed one such story by publishing her Russian/Lithuanian Jewish grandmother’s memoir — Kotia to Ketaki: At Home Away from Home. She takes Moneycontrol through the fascinating backstory of the memoir.
A Japanese Buddhist monk explains why your office should feel more like a dojo than a battlefield - and shares three no-cost rituals to get you started on practicing three tenets of Jōdo Shinshū philosophy at the workplace.
The rapid growth between 1960 and 1980 was experienced most by Haryana and Punjab, a testament to the Green Revolution
Sonora Jha, an award winning novelist, has come out with another book ‘Intemperance’. It is at once a satirical feminist folktale and a meditation on how we might reach past all sense and still find love. In an interview to Moneycontrol, she explains the context to the book.
Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times bestselling author Matthew McConaughey is a husband and a father, an eternal optimist, a hopeful skeptic, and a man of faith who believes that we should all start sellin' Sunday morning like a Saturday night.
Politics is understandably prominent in the Dandavate prison letters
Fans of Rodgers and Hammerstein will notice that Do and Ti are missing from Guido’s scale.
There isn’t much difference between cult leaders like Rampal, or other leaders who weaponize faith for control, or patriarchs who demand submission, writes Priyamvada Mehra in her memoir ‘The Cost of a Promised Afterlife’, which describes her family’s immersion into a cult.
