BOOKS & ART

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

Sanya Malik's Black Cube Gallery and Shantanu Sharma present Line as Witness, a solo exhibition by Bhopal-based artist Yusuf, running from 29th March to 11th April 2026 at Sunder Nagar, New Delhi. The show brings together acrylic paintings, mixed media explorations and sculptural forms accumulated over decades of practice, and is open to all by prior appointment between 11am and 6pm. Yusuf has spent his career treating the line not as a formal device but as the fundamental un

Journalist Deepika Khurana’s Juggler, published by Vishwakarma Publications, enters the space of Indian fiction through the contained world of a traveling circus. At its center is Bobo, a dwarf who works as a clown in the Triumph Circus, performing humor for audiences while carrying an unresolved personal history. The circus offers him visibility, but not necessarily freedom from his past. The narrative gradually reveals that Bobo is also Sikander, a name connected to an earl

The Dragon’s Shadow by Balakrishna Kamath is positioned as an intelligence-driven political thriller, drawing from the author’s professional background and familiarity with security environments. India's strategic concerns, particularly in relation to China's expanding geopolitical influence, set the backdrop for the novel. The narrative follows intelligence operations, surveillance structures, and the internal functioning of agencies tasked with assessing and responding to e

Begum Qudsia Rasul holds a distinct place in India’s political history as the only Muslim woman who was part of the Constituent Assembly. Her memoir, first published in 2001 and later reissued by Roli Books, documents her life across princely India, the years leading up to independence, and her role in the making of the Indian Constitution. The book is structured as a personal and political record, tracing her journey from an aristocratic upbringing to active participation in

Scott Mescudi has introduced a new body of visual artwork under the name Scotty Ramon, presenting his first solo exhibition titled Echoes of the Past at Galerie Ruttkowski;68 in Paris. The exhibition marks his formal entry into contemporary art through painting and sculpture, extending a creative practice that began privately less than two years ago. The exhibition brings together more than 50 works, primarily acrylic paintings on canvas, alongside a single sculptural piece.