Books

Rajiv Gandhi did not want Ram Mandir-Babri Masjid dispute to be resolved as he did not want Chandra Shekhar to take credit for the same

The former RBI governor Urjit Patel in his yet-to-be-released book writes that several government banks did not have senior management in place, and governance suffered.

Bhushan has detailed in his book that NDTV had formed a dedicated team and run a long and elaborate campaign 'exposing' Natwar Singh's alleged corruption with the sole aim to remove him from the cabinet. But strangely, the successful campaign finds no mention in the organisation's 'untold stories'.

Toeing the orthodox line, Nizamuddin Aulia had condemned the Hindus of India to the 'fires of hell'. He had also written that even if the non-Muslims embrace Islam, the faith will not benefit them, because they had been unbelievers. He had added, "He, (Allah) has created paradise and hell for the believers and the infidels respectively to repay the wicked they (infidels) have done."

Excerpts from the book "How I became a Hindu" by Sita Ram Goel in which he talks about how he felt about independent India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Nehruism.

Sutradhar by Ratul Chakraborty is a collection of stories set across the arc of Indian history.

Yogi Adityanath's biographer, Shantanu Gupta, writes what his parents feel when they see their son Ajay as UP Chief Minister

Psephologist Pradeep Bhandari has turned author with his debut book 'Modi Mandate 2019: Dispatches from Ground Zero" which he penned after travelling to as many as 400 out of 543 Lok Sabha constituencies.

Saffron Swords is a commendable effort by an individual who came across all this information painstakingly in her own travels and research.

"Predators and prey" by Abhinav Agarwal is a fast-paced, nail-biting thriller that keeps you glued to the end.