BOOKS & ART

Most of us have only the vaguest idea of what happens to our food once we have swallowed it. We know it goes somewhere, and we trust that the body will sort it out, and beyond that our curiosity tends to stop at the plate.

Anyone who has worked under a manager who treated people as levers to be pulled knows the particular exhaustion it produces. There is the colleague who withholds praise on purpose so you keep working for it, the boss who plays two team members against each other and calls it healthy competition; and the quiet manipulations dressed up as strategy that everyone can feel even when no one can quite name them.

PoMo presents Alien Terrain, the first solo exhibition in Norway of American artist Ken Price, bringing together 14 late-period ceramic and bronze sculptures that sit between bodily form and imagined terrain.

MoMA's Architects of Liberation traces how newly independent West African nations used modern architecture, from trade fair pavilions to civic buildings, to imagine sovereignty and identity beyond colonial rule. On view through 2nd January 2027.

Method Delhi presents Holiday Homework, a LOAM exhibition supported by the Ardee Foundation, asking what childhood looks like once it is no longer shaped by mass production. Bringing together 18 artists alongside open-call finalists and student contributors, the show reframes childhood as a site of cultural production rather than consumption. On view from 19 July to 23 August 2026.

A review of Let Money Chase You by Indrazith Shantharaj — a refreshingly honest, jargon-free guide to building lasting wealth. No get-rich schemes, just simple, doable steps toward financial peace for anyone who's ever lost sleep over money.

A moving review of Letters From Your Therapist: On Love and Loss by Kareena Mehta — a tender, deeply human book on therapy, grief, and love that speaks directly to South Asian readers. Part letter, part poetry, entirely honest.

Bindu & Rekha by Sai Akhil Anand runs from 14 to 30 June 2026, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM (closed Mondays), at the Sandeep & Gitanjali Maini Foundation, 38 Maini Sadan, Mezzanine Level, 7th Cross, Lavelle Road, Bengaluru .

The self-help shelf is crowded, loud, and full of promises. For every book that genuinely shifts how you think, there are ten that repackage the same advice in shinier covers. So instead of handing you another recycled list of titles we've never opened, we've done something different: every book here has been read and reviewed in full by our team. No filler, no guesswork — just the ones we think are actually worth your time, grouped by what you're looking for. Whether you're

Wild Capital explores attention, revealing the profound beauty of the natural world that surrounds us daily, even in unexpected places. This book will quietly and permanently change how you move through Delhi, whether you love it, have complicated feelings about it, or have lived there and sometimes feel exhausted by it or grateful for it.

A deeply personal and emotionally resonant memoir, My Summer of Cricket by Nikhil Kulkarni follows one lifelong cricket fan’s journey across Australia during the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, exploring memory, migration, fandom, and the enduring emotional pull of the game.

The What Is That series was designed to help very young children understand the world around them. The Why I Feel series is about something far more tender and complex. It is about helping them understand the world within them. Children feel emotions before they know the words for them.

Five beautifully made board books covering animals, numbers, colours, vehicles, and weather — the What Is That? series by Moonstone, Rupa Publications' children's imprint, is early learning done right for children aged one to four.

A children's picture book that introduces Amrita Sher-Gil — India's greatest woman painter — through young Sarayu's journey of creative self-discovery. Warm illustrations, deceptively simple writing, and a story that works on more than one level. A review from an eleven-year-old's perspective.

The Akanksha Foundation's children were taught to see the world through Van Gogh, MF Hussain, Jamini Roy, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Banksy — and then asked to look at their own lives through the same eyes. The results are on view at Khotachi Wadi, Girgaum, Mumbai until 7 June 2025.

Sutapa Banerjee has spent over thirty years in financial services, board governance, and behavioral insights. She sits on the boards of Zomato, Godrej Properties, and Polycab. She wasrecognizedd as one of the Top 20 Global Rising Stars of Wealth Management by the Institutional Investor Group in 2007 and shortlisted among the 50 Most Powerful Women by Fortune India in 2012. When someone with this kind of biography edits a book about corporate responsibility in India, you pay a

The first is that modern abstract art is doing something real and the people who made it were often thinking very seriously about what they were trying to do. The second is that the market for this art has almost nothing to do with the art itself and operates on entirely different principles. Understanding both parts does not require any particular background in art history. It requires only the willingness to take the question seriously.

There is a relationship between art and fashion that has been described so many times and in so many ways that the description itself has become a kind of reflex, something reached for automatically whenever a designer name-drops a painter or a museum stages a collaboration with a luxury house or a runway show is held in a gallery space with catalog essays written by curators who are very careful about how much of their credibility they are lending and to whom.

Fashion. Architecture. Watches. Cars. Interiors. Photography. Design Philosophy. One book from each world that belongs in every serious collection.

Tucked inside Khotachi Wadi, one of Mumbai's few surviving heritage villages with Portuguese-British roots, 47A is currently showing Shadows of Empire, a two-person exhibition featuring Kolkata-based artist Jit Chowdhury and Mumbai-based photographer and painter Kaushal Parikh. The show opened on March 21st and runs until April 19th. The two artists come from entirely different backgrounds and work in entirely different mediums, which is precisely what makes the pairing inter