Forgotten Book: Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

Imagine you are the one cooking for US President, Theodore Roosevelt. Then one day as you have served him  breakfast and are humming in the kitchen, you are told that the President has thrown out the plate of sausages. What will be your reaction - a quaking in the boots, palpitations of the heart, breaking …

The Pain of Partition: K.K. Khullar’s Yellow Rose

"I thought it was time to spin the story, weave the tale. The result is Yellow Rose and 19 other roses of different colours titled differently."I had enjoyed reading K.K. Khullar's biography of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, so when I saw a book of short stories written by him, I picked it up with great expectations. …

CELEBRATING THE SIMPLE PLEASURES OF LIFE: PAPA’S WIFE

There are certain books that lie with you for years but somehow you either don’t get the chance to read them or keep putting them off on some pretext or the other – better finish the book borrowed from the library, keep it for a ‘rainy day’, read it when you are a particular mood, …