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Where Work, Womanhood, and Words Converge: Dr. Rajani Tewari’s Literary World

In contemporary Indian writing, where urgency often competes with nuance, Dr. Rajani Tewari’s work chooses a steadier, more exacting path. Her writing does not seek spectacle. It seeks recognition—of the thoughts women carry silently, the guilt they inherit unconsciously, and the emotional labour that structures both personal and professional life. An award‑winning author and senior…

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Learning to Speak Softly to the Self: The Poetry of Divyaa Sood

In a literary moment increasingly marked by urgency and volume, Divyaa Sood’s writing chooses a different register. It lowers its voice. It listens. And in that attentiveness, it finds its strength. A writer and poet deeply invested in emotional truth and inward reflection, Sood’s work inhabits the delicate spaces between silence and speech—those inner corridors where feeling…

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The Craft of Capability: Reading Dr. Rishikesh Tewari on Soft Skills and Self‑Making

In a professional world increasingly defined by speed, metrics, and technical expertise, Dr. Rishikesh Tewari’s Conquer the World with Your Soft Skills and Personality makes a persuasive case for a quieter, often underestimated force: the human ability to communicate, empathise, and adapt. The book argues—without rhetoric or exaggeration—that success today is shaped as much by emotional intelligence as…

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The Mind as Manuscript: Deepti Jethani’s Poetic Inquiry into Inner Life

In Butterflies In My Mind, Deepti Jethani makes a considered and quietly confident entry into contemporary Indian poetry. A finance professional by vocation and a poet by instinct, Jethani writes from the interstice between structure and sensitivity, bringing to her verse a discipline that tempers emotion without diminishing its force. The result is a collection that does not…

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Sayantani Putatunda : Recasting Popular Fiction with Intelligence and Intent

In the crowded and often polarised terrain of contemporary Indian writing, Sayantani Putatunda occupies a space that is both assured and carefully negotiated. Her work does not announce itself through novelty alone; it earns attention through discipline, range, and sustained engagement with society. Writing primarily in Bengali, she has emerged as one of the most…

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Utkarsh Sinha’s Scared India as Cultural Documentation

In a period when India’s spiritual life is increasingly mediated through spectacle, speed, and simplification, adopts a markedly different approach. His work resists interpretation through instant explanation or visual excess. Instead, it proceeds with patience—treating faith not as an event to be consumed, but as a civilisational practice to be documented. Sacre d India, Sinha’s…

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Ehtesham Shahid’s The Roaming Bihari and His Bagful of Stories: A Journalist’s Life Across the Fault Lines of the Middle East

There are books that explain regions, and there are books that live inside them.belongs to the latter category—part reportage, part memoir, and part reflective inquiry into what it means to be an Indian journalist navigating the layered realities of the Middle East. Written by , the book draws upon more than two decades of professional…

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Manu Kapur’s Productive Failure: Rethinking How Learning Truly Happens

In an age increasingly preoccupied with efficiency, optimization, and measurable success, Manu Kapur has spent a distinguished academic career arguing for an idea that appears, at first glance, counterintuitive: that failure—when carefully designed—is not a detour from learning, but its most reliable path. Currently the Director of the Singapore‑ETH Centre and Professor of Learning Sciences and Higher Education at ETH Zurich,…

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