The Lives We Nearly Lived: Why Almost… Not Quite Gives Longing a Place to Belong
Some books are built around the question of what happens next. Others are interested in what has already happened and how those events can be understood. Sonali Bhattacharya’s Almost… Not Quite: A Collection of Short Stories begins with a more elusive…
Book Review – Depression and Alternative Therapy: Reading Mental Health Through the Lens of the Whole Person
By Dr. Santosh Kumar Vishvakarma and Dr. Prabhanjan Tiwari A book about depression must meet a demanding standard. It has to explain a condition that can profoundly affect ordinary life without reducing the people who experience it to a diagnosis. It…
Book Review: ESG Beyond Compliance—Creating Profit, Purpose and Competitive AdvantageBy Gouri Shankar Patnaik
Gouri Shankar Patnaik’s ESG Beyond Compliance offers a thoughtful and practical examination of how businesses can connect responsible conduct with lasting commercial success. Built around the relationship between environmental stewardship, social…
Samkaleen Bharat Mein Shiksha: Pariprekshya, Neetiyan aur NavacharBy Dr. Pramod Kumar Rajput and Dr. Jai Nath Yadav
Education in India is shaped by a long interaction between cultural traditions, social aspirations, political decisions, and changing ideas about knowledge. Samkaleen Bharat Mein Shiksha: Pariprekshya, Neetiyan aur Navachar brings these dimensions…
Soap Base Manufacturing Technology—From Fundamentals to Commercial ProductionBy Dr. Prashant Kumar Tembhare
Soap Base Manufacturing Technology—From Fundamentals to Commercial Production by Dr. Prashant Kumar Tembhare offers a broad and practically focused introduction to soap manufacturing. Bringing together scientific principles, raw material selection,…
WILD LIFE CONSERVATION IN A CHANGING WORLD: PRESENT ISSUES AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Authors: Dr. K. Venu Achari, Dr. Vivek Mohan Agarwal, Dr. Sunira Verma, and Ms. Nidhi Singh The book Wild Life Conservation in a Changing World: Present Issues and Future Directions is an important and meaningful work that focuses on one of the most…
WHERE THE UNSPOKEN FINDS A HOME
An emotional reading of love, absence and recognition in Dr. Nazia Sheikh’s दश्त-ए-सुख़न There are books one approaches for a story, books one approaches for information, and books one approaches because ordinary language has failed to explain a…
The Clock Is Not the Story: Reconsidering What Time Really Feels Like
An ordinary question with extraordinary implications There are books about managing time, books about the history of clocks, and books about the mysteries of the brain. Dr. Rijhul Lahariya’s The Brain Within: How the Brain Shapes Time approaches the…
The Golden Years: Better Lived (Healthy. Happy. Wise. Fulfilled)
by Dr. (Prof.) Arun Kumar Shrivastava Redefining Ageing as a Journey of Purpose, Wisdom, and Fulfilment Ageing is often portrayed as a period of physical decline, increasing dependence, loneliness, and diminishing opportunities. Yet growing older can…
Book Review – Practical Problems in Implementation of the Right to Information Act, 2005 by Abhishek K. Badiger: Testing Transparency in Practice
The Right to Information Act, 2005 rests on a straightforward democratic principle: people should be able to ask public authorities for information and receive an answer within a legally defined process. Yet the value of such a right depends not only on…