Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again Olive Kitteridge, the cantankerous Maine school teacher at the centre of Strout’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel, is back, lonely but unbowed. Strout opens with Olive’...Read More
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Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism was the first of the ten Sikh Gurus, died on September 22, 1539. Known for his political, social and spiritual beliefs which were based on love, equality, fraternity...Read More
It is the birthday of our current Prime Minister, Mr Narendra Modi. And, true readers need just another reason to buy a book and add it to their existing TBR (To-Be-Read) pile. If you are one of those...Read More
Michael D. Shaw is a biochemist and freelance writer. A graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and a protégé of the late Willard Libby, winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in chemistry, Sh...Read More