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New Delhi: While the first few days of lockdown 3.0 was dominated by liquor stores, another category of merchandise that made their way to the list of essentials in phase three were books and stationery. Though less of a celebrity than liquor stores, book stores across the capital had been raring to reopen. Monday saw many such small and medium bookstores open in Delhi after nearly two months. Amid images of customers flouting social distancing norms and thronging liquor stores, images appeared on social media of…

‘You’re not complete as a woman unless you become a mother.’ With these brilliantly misleading words that every woman in India must have heard at some point of her life begins Pooja Pande’s book ‘Momspeak: The Funny, Bittersweet Story of Motherhood in India’. This spectacularly inane piece of wisdom is of course attributed to all the ‘aunties we know’ because who else would say such things, right? Pande’s book busts myths about motherhood in India, and therefore, it would make a wonderful gift for anyone…

Traditionally, LGBTQ Pride Month celebrations in June - marked to honor the 1969 Stonewall riots - include pride parades, parties, workshops, symposia and concerts, but since this year is all about social distancing, here are suggestions to mark the occasion with books. Less by Andrew Sean Greer (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2018) Arthur Less is a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the post: it is from an ex-boyfriend of nine years who is engaged to someone else.…

"Harry Potter" author JK Rowling has revealed she is a survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault in a lengthy and personal essay, in response to the outrage on her comments on transgender people. The writer explained her decision to come out as a survivor who was subjected to violence and abuse in her 20s, saying "I'm mentioning these things now not in an attempt to garner sympathy, but out of solidarity with the huge numbers of women who have histories like mine, who've been slurred as bigots for having…

Sonam Kapoor reveals she has been in love with books since her childhood days Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor on Friday took to Instagram to upload a childhood picture of herself. In the throwback picture, Sonam is seen lying on the bed with a book in her hands. Through her post’s caption, the 35-year-old actress revealed she has been a voracious reader since her childhood days. Captioning the post, Sonam wrote, “Nothing has changed since then once a (bookworm) always a bookworm." Soon after sharing…

Ranbir Kapoor snapped at airport in 2017The book in Ranbir Kapoor's hand is Robert Evans’ autobiography ‘The Kid Stays In the Picture’.A throwback featuring Ranbir Kapoor is going viral across social media platforms. The picture shows Ranbir at the airport holding a novel in his hand. The click was taken back in the year 2017 when the Sanju actor was travelling for the promotions of his film Jagga Jasoos. The book in his hand is Robert Evans’ autobiography ‘The Kid Stays In the Picture’. The Rockstar actor is seen wearing…

In the biography of former defence minister and Goa's chief minister late Manohar Parrikar, authors' Sadguru Patil and Mayabhushan outline with meticulous detail how the surgical strikes were planned in retaliation to the 2016 militant attack at an Army base in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir. The book, titled An Extraordinary life: a biography of Manohar Parrikar that was launched on Friday recounts Parrikar's second-last public appearance before his death due to pancreatic cancer. During the appearance, he was so unwell…

Mary L Trump, the niece of United States President, Donald Trump, has neatly arranged all the hidden skeletons from the Trump family’s closet in the chapters of her explosive book, ‘Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man’ which was published on Tuesday. The book, as is self-explanatory from the title, is about how Donald Trump became the man he is today. And, the answer, of course, Mary claims, lies in his dysfunctional family, and his loveless upbringing. This book…

When Ruskin Bond told his mother that he wanted to be a writer, she laughed saying with his good handwriting he could only be a clerk in a lawyer's office. This was early in 1951 when Bond was waiting for his school board results. He knew he would do well in English literature, history and geography, but wasn't too sure about maths and physics. Bond's aim was to write stories and become an author, but no one else seemed to think it was a good idea. His stepfather wanted him to attend college, his mother…

Actor Priyanka Chopra on Tuesday revealed that she has completed the final manuscript of her memoir, "Unfinished", and the book is set to come out soon. "Unfinished" is a collection of personal essays, stories and observations of the 38-year-old actor, to be published by Penguin Random House India. Priyanka took to Twitter and said the book comes from an extremely personal, introspective space. "'Unfinished' is finished! Just about sent in the final manuscript! Wheee! Cannot wait to share it with you all.…