There are some books you don’t really read… you sit with them. And sometimes, without warning, they take you somewhere you didn’t plan to go. While reading Thinking of Winter by Shantanu Naidu, I found myself drifting back—not to a memory I had forgotten, but to one I had quietly kept aside. Lancer. A German Shepherd who never needed words to be understood. That’s the space this book occupies. Not dramatic. Not loud. Just deeply present. At its surface, the narrat

There are some books you don’t just read — you inhabit them. They unfold like an old photograph album, where every page carries a scent, a story, a heartbeat. I Came Upon a Lighthouse by Shantanu Naidu, with illustrations by Sanjana Desai, is one such book. It’s not a biography, not exactly a memoir, but a feeling — warm, humane, and quietly luminous — much like the man at its center: Ratan Tata. I still remember the first time I turned its pages on a quiet Sunday morning,