Book Review

Author       :   David Walliams Illustrator   :  Tony Ross Publisher   :   HarperCollins Children's Books There are some teachers we love and some we hate. But there's also another category of teachers. These are the ones whom everyone…
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Anil Swarup retired in June last year as Secretary, School Education, HRD. The book is a memoir of his 38-year-long roller coaster stint in the civil services. The book begins with the fact that his entry into the IAS world wasn’t his…
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‘The Room on the Roof’ is Ruskin Bond’s first novel, written way back in the year 1956, when he was just 17 years old. Within a year of writing this book, he was awarded the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. The book is a story of a 16…
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If you are interested in knowing about endurance and how much a human body can endure, this book is for you. As the name suggests, the book talks about endurance, athletic endurance. The sports covered include marathon running,…
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For all the people who love nature, forests and wildlife, Man-eaters of Kumaon is one of its kind, insightful book on tracking and shooting tigers. The book has 10 fascinating stories narrated by one of the greatest hunters, Jim Corbett,…
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Tired of the quality of the then existing search engines, two Stanford students start a research project to improve online search. Their hunt results in the birth of Google. Sounds unbelievable! But that’s precisely how Google began its…
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Written by Eleanor H. Porter, Pollyanna is a fascinating story of 11-year-old orphan girl who faces every challenge of life by playing the ‘Glad Game’ which she had learnt from her father. The story begins when Pollyanna, after the death…
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The book is an autobiography of Helen Keller, who is one of the most respected and internationally recognised visually impaired and deaf ladies, who struggled against all odds to educate herself. Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in…
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One of the most popular novels in English literature, Pride and Prejudice is unarguably the best work of Jane Austen. Published in the 19th century, this classic continues to capture the fascination of modern readers. The story revolves…
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Most of you must have heard about the ‘Miracle on the Hudson.' Many of you must have watched the recently released Tom Hanks starrer Sully which was based on the same incident. So why then should you read a book dealing with the same…
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Those of you who are in your teens - how many of you desist to be told what to do and how to do, what to study and when to study? Teenagers demand to be treated as adults but are seldom dealt that way. This forces them to rebel, often…
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People rejoiced his creation - be it his company or its products. Students got inspired by listening to his speech, "Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish," which he delivered at Stanford University in 2005. His opponents envied his vision, and his…
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