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The Simla Paintings and Other Stories - Rita Joshi — What makes a good anthology of short stories? This is a deceptively tricky question. If you had a bunch of random stories that were brilliant individually but had no common thread, or if you had some ordinary stories that were cleverly woven into a single theme, would either of these […]

The Simla Paintings and Other Stories – Rita Joshi

Read if you must Anthology Short Stories by Payal Dhar

Ajaya - Anand Neelakantan — Ajaya by Anand Neelakantan is positioned as the story of Mahabharatha from the point of view of the Kauravas. The story’s context begins with the destruction of Gandhar and the marriage of Gandhari with the blind Dhritarashtra. Prince Shakuni, who is a young boy at that time is brought to […]

Ajaya – Anand Neelakantan

Read if you must Indian Mythology Retelling by Uma Sundaram

Thinking with data - Max Shron — After doing a course in data science from Coursera, I was excited at the prospect of reading this book “Thinking with Data” by Max Shron, published by O’Reilly Media. The book does start promisingly. The author argues the importance of considering the “why” before the “how” in projects involving data. […]

Thinking with Data – Max Shron

Read if you must Data science Information Technology Non fiction by Menaka S

The Monkey Puzzle - Julia Donaldson — I picked up a few picture books for my daughter in the recent amazon.in Deepavali sale. Here are my reviews for them 1. The Monkey Puzzle – Julia Donaldson A delightful story about the monkey who is searching for his mum. A butterfly helps him by asking him about how […]

My experience with four picture books

Must-Read Read if you must Children Picture Book by Uma Sundaram