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Read two paperback novels set in Delhi, one about what it takes to survive in a big city and the other, a gentle love story of a boy from Bihar and a momo-seller from the northeast; read how step-by-step processes reveal ways of overcoming obstacles on the path to fitness; and finally an unusual love story set in a cafe. The bookshelf has the following reads for this weekend: 1.The Fitness Currency Author: Utkarsh Rai Publisher: Rupa Price: Rs 295 Pages: 228 "Want to lose weight" is a…

Love, Death & Robots season 3 trailer has been released, with just 10 days to go for the arrival of the latest season in the Emmy award-winning animated Netflix series. You will get access to nine short films on Love, Death & Robots season 3, with stories ranging from a ship's crew facing an attack from a massive crustacean to evolved warmongering rats doing battle with a Scottish farmer, according to Netflix. Meanwhile, Love, Death & Robots executive producer David Fincher is set to direct an episode this…

Simon & Schuster India (Non-fiction / Memoir) Rs 350, 232 pages Love is complicated. Being a parent sometimes brings out your own parent in you. Families share unspoken codes only their hearts can decipher. And marriage is a strange beast that consumes, confounds and consummates you at the same time. These are the only-too-real truths that Natasha Badhwar’s latest book Immortal for a Moment mirrors back to you. Its title inspired by lines from Nobel Prize-winner Wislawa Szymborska’s 1986 poem On…

She writes poetic prose, employs redolent metaphors and evokes utmost admiration for her novelistic virtues. Arundhati Roy is anything but a boring author. The 1997 Booker Prize-winner, who is equally at ease writing scathing essays, says she is a "disciplined writer" whose heart lies in fiction as it is a "connective tissue" between many things which are sometimes looked at or studied in isolation. "Much of my non-fiction writing is an argument, but fiction is where you create a universe through which you…

Every now and then, there is a debate whether Aurangzeb was a villain or a hero. Such debates become even more important when very few people know about his personal life. Aurangzeb had two Hindu wives-one a Rajput named Udaipuri and another Nawab Bai. Udaipuri was so much in love with the sixth Mughal emperor that she had expressed her wish to perform ‘sati’ if Aurangzeb died before her. This fact was mentioned by Aurangzeb himself in a letter to his son Kambaksh. Interestingly, the two died within months in 1707.…

The year 2019 has welcomed a few firsts in the LGBTQ community. It has been the year of the first same-sex marriage law in Asia and India had its first queer album with singer Pragya Pallavi's 'Queerism'. It is also the year that sees June celebrating the fiftieth Pride Month. Incidentally, the month of June was chosen for LGBT Pride Month to commemorate the Stonewall riots, which occurred at the end of June 1969. Even Google Doodle celebrated 50 years of Pride with a vibrant and animated doodle that commemorated the…

We already knew that Netflix’s sci-fi anthology Love, Death and Robots was returning for a third volume. But thanks to a fresh trailer, we now also know what to expect. As always, the show will feature short animated stories that generally fall into the genres of sci-fi, horror, and, occasionally, fantasy. But what really makes Love, Death and Robots stand out is the variety of stories it tells. This season looks no different, with animation ranging from hyper-real to cel-shaded trippiness. Netflix says the new season…

Book: Vichhoda Author: Harinder Sikka There is a life beyond sorrow and pain where you’re in complete control of your fate. You understand how life takes unexpected turns and the only way to deal with it is to keep marching forward. Bibi Amrit Kaur, a Sikh married to a Muslim, is one such character in Harinder Sikka’s latest novel Vichhoda (pain of separation), who has to accept the surreal developments around her in order to survive. She is much more than just a wife remembering her husband, or a mother…

Recently unveiled letters from TS Eliot to his muse Emily Hale show how much he loved his longtime friend, but a statement from beyond the grave by the poet himself dismisses his feelings and shows how Eliot tries to rewrite the narrative of their relationship, scholars say. Hale donated Eliot's letters to Princeton University Library more than 60 years ago with instructions that they could only be opened 50 years after she and Eliot died. The day they were made available at the Ivy League school, Eliot's…

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…