Mariam Karim-Ahlawat, author of ‘The House of a 100 Stories’. Animal characters are always of great interest to young readers and ‘The...

The universe itself is the greatest fairy tale! Growing up with this thought embedded in my mind, I was sure of two things at the time of...

Kaushik Mitra, VP and CFO, PepsiCo, India “The only thing that is certain in life is change.” This is one adage I have come to strongly...

If not anywhere else, you can be certain that German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s plays have a place in Kolkata, the capital of the...

For her debut novel Kimsuka Narsimhan has created a fast-paced mystery around the sudden death of an heir to a family fortune. It all...

Eleven or so years ago, I discovered the poetry of Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska and longed to possess a book of her poems. Sadly, her...

“Life becomes bearable only when one has come to terms with who one is, both in one’s own eyes and in the eyes of the world. We all of us...

I’ve always been suspicious of the story I’ve read (and heard) about how Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to...

Joy C Raphael’s book, Slaves of Saudis: Terrorisation of foreign workers, on abusive treatment of migrant workers in Saudi Arabia is an...

Although we tend to single out Adolf Hitler and the Nazis for their evil nature and deeds, we all know that they weren’t the only ones in...

Most of us have a personal relationship with books. But, if asked, I wonder if we’d be able to define or describe this relationship… or...

Besides or in spite of his art, most people probably remember Andy Warhol as the person famous for saying, “In the future everybody will...

A Kappa is a mythical beast, found in Japanese folklore. But, in Ryunosuke Akutagawa’s 1927 novel, Kappa, a whole nation of Kappas (cute...

Is it better to be a coward and live a happy life with the one you love? Or, is it better to do something heroic and risk your life and...

Turtle Books invites all its authors to start blogging. Write about what's happening, the new book you are working on, the book reading...