The Paddington Bear author has died. The bear who pulled his creator out of depression is immortal

Michael Bond, who introduced the famous bear in children’s books in 1958, died recently.

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· Jul 16, 2017 · 03:30 pm

The Man Booker International prize-winner is a brilliant, tragic story full of jokes

A stand-up comedian’s life unravels in full view of his audience.

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· Jun 24, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Finally, the girls of the Mahabharata get a book series of their own

The first one tells the story of Matsyagandhi, aka Satyavati. In the first person.

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· Jun 17, 2017 · 08:30 am

Teenage suicide needs a better book than ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’

The TV series has brought the novel a success it did not deserve.

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· Jun 03, 2017 · 06:00 am

You’ve heard of the unreliable narrator? Paula (‘Girl on the Train’) Hawkins’s new thriller has ten

A tragedy that turns into a mystery.

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· May 16, 2017 · 08:30 am

Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is here in our lives, and not just as a TV show

While we weren’t looking, the book became our reality.

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· May 14, 2017 · 06:30 pm

Party’s over: Why I’m happy that I went through social menopause

Planning for New Year’s bashes begin in August. Your social media feed is filled with getaways. Finally, there’s only a handful of you left in the same town.

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· Dec 26, 2016 · 11:30 am

A Potterhead waits for ‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ with both excitement and trepidation

The main thing to remember, of course, that this is not in fact Book Eight. It’s a spin-off.

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· Jul 09, 2016 · 10:00 am

Sunny Leone’s erotic short stories are too watered down and too safe

Published on a phone app, these stories seem to be made for a predominantly male readership.

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· May 14, 2016 · 11:30 am

Furballs and snobbery: The odd and delightful world of an Indian cat show

What happens when a lot of cat people and their felines get together under one roof?

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· May 03, 2016 · 11:45 am

Books you grew up with in the 1990s: ‘The Baby-sitters Club’ series

No boyfriends, definitely no sex, stuck in tweenage, but still tugging at the heartstrings.

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· Apr 30, 2016 · 04:30 pm

Why the real ‘Jungle Books’ are far more wonderful and fearsome than the movie

Going back to Rudyard Kipling’s original books provides a different experience.

Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan

· Apr 16, 2016 · 10:30 am