What if having it all is not about getting everything? What does it actually mean to have it all? More money? A successful career? A happy family? Good health? Inner peace? Meaningful relationships? Freedom from regret? We tend to imagine these things as items on a checklist. The more boxes we tick, the closer we are to a great life. Gaur Gopal Das’s You Can Have It All made me question that definition. Perhaps the difficult part is not getting more out of life. Per

We often think we know a place because we know its address. We know the roads. We know the buildings. We know where to get tea. We know which corner is crowded in the evening. We know where people walk, where children play and where politicians once stood behind microphones. But knowing a place is not the same as knowing its memory. That distinction is at the heart of Shanta Gokhale’s Shivaji Park – Dadar 28: History, Places, People. And perhaps that is why this book

I have a confession. I like books that make me stop reading. Not because they are boring. Quite the opposite. Because sometimes I am reading a page and suddenly I have to look up and say, “Wait. What?” That happened quite a few times with What the What?! And, honestly, that is probably the best possible reaction to this book. I came to it expecting a book of strange facts, trivia and questions. I got that. But somewhere between one bizarre fact and another

Some books announce themselves loudly. This one arrived like a coded message slipped across a café table—quiet, dangerous, and impossible to ignore once you realised what it carried. I read The Silk Route Spy not in its original English, but in its Marathi translation, and that detail matters. Because this is a story about crossing borders—political, moral, emotional—and reading it in a language that lives closer to the soil made those crossings feel even more intimate. Dr.

Death is one of those subjects we instinctively tiptoe around. We talk about it in hushed tones, if at all. Yet in India, where faiths,...