Book Excerpts

In Weirdest Maths, David Darling and Agnijo Banerjee reveal the mathematics at the farthest reaches of our world – from its role in the plots of novels to how animals employ numerical skills to survive. Along the way they explore what makes a genius, and one particular genius… Ask someone

In August 2015, Munaf Kapadia quit his four-year-long career as a consultant at Google to pursue another venture – with his mother! Two years down the line, as Chief Eating Officer of food tech start-up The Bohri Kitchen, he made the Forbes India 30 Under 30 list. Packed with ‘samosa gyan’ gathered

A first-ever in-depth exploration of the science of taste and flavor by Nik Sharma! “The Flavor Equation deserves space on the shelf right next to Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat as a titan of the how-and-why brigade.”– The New Yorker “Deep and illuminating, fresh and highly informative…a most brilliant achievement.” –

 No Land’s People documents the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Assam’s citizenship tangle, juxtaposes it with the complications of the NRC process while exploring technical, social and legal aspects of the exercise. ONE day in 1949, my grandmother, then all of seven, walked from East Pakistan into India holding her father’s

For Raj and Norah, it was love at first sight, and in each other’s company, the young couple forgot the devastation of World War II that surrounded them. But as quickly as their story began, it was over – Raj was sent to London, Norah was posted to a hospital