Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’: Complicated grief and the impact of losing a mother so young

The book is being marketed as a story about the ‘eternal power of love over grief’.

Sarah Wayland, The Conversation

· Jan 16, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Deepti Naval on her memoir: ‘It’s like watching a movie, where you’re with me’

The acclaimed actor returns to her first love, writing, with ‘A Country Called Childhood’.

Nandini Ramnath

· Jul 17, 2022 · 08:00 am

What Priyanka Chopra’s memoir says about her move to Hollywood, trolling and coping with grief

‘Unfinished’ includes the movie’s star’s perspective on the Mother Teresa blooper and the controversial photograph with Narendra Modi.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 09, 2021 · 09:37 pm

Her father’s memories were slipping away. She made him tell stories so that he could hold on to them

‘Would these forgotten stories in turn help him reconstruct a sense of self?’

Ranu Bhattacharyya

· Dec 07, 2019 · 08:30 am

When Amrita Pritam wove her autobiography around love, she also demonstrated the many ways to love

In her centenary year, Amrita Pritam’s personal story, written in narrative fragments, take us back to the tumultuous role of love in her life.

Gayathri Prabhu

· Oct 13, 2019 · 07:30 am

The question raised by Nawazuddin Siddiqui’s ‘An Ordinary Life’: Is memory to be trusted?

A subjective account will necessarily ruffle feathers, as publishing history proves.

Archana Nathan

· Oct 31, 2017 · 01:30 pm

Memoirs by Karan Johar, Rishi Kapoor prove that celebrities want to take charge of their own stories

Exit professional biographer, enter the scribe? Fortunately for the reader, both books are hugely readable.

Nandini Ramnath

· Jan 21, 2017 · 12:00 pm

Bryan Cranston’s memoir maps the long and hard road to ‘Breaking Bad’

‘A Life in Parts’ is a candid and unsanitised chronicle of the celebrated actor’s struggle to overcome his tough childhood.

Ankita Chawla

· Jan 15, 2017 · 12:00 pm

What a young woman wrote in a handbook for her lover

When polygamy is reluctant, despite a partner who doesn’t demand monogamy.

Rosalyn D’Mello

· Dec 05, 2015 · 01:30 pm