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Book Review: The Last White Hunter, Reminiscences of a Colonial Shikari

April 26, 2018 Deepa Mohan

The Last White Hunter, Reminiscences of a Colonial Shikari By Donald Anderson, as told to Joshua Mathew 265 pp. Rs.650 Indus Source Books PO Box 6194 Malabar Hill PO Mumbai 400 006 INDIA Email: info@indussource.com

The love of reading…and passing on that love

September 12, 2016 Deepa Mohan

I was attending a book launch (“Junkland Journeys”, by Ajith Pillai) and from where I sat (apparently it had been the bar of the Mallu restaurant which used to be there earlier!) I looked down

For Your Reading List

February 2, 2015 Chitra Srikrishna

I am always wary of reading books on music as I find most of them pedantic. The breadth of classical music can be a daunting subject for any writer. However some books stand out

Literacy Day – Story time, Fun time!

September 4, 2014 Arathi Manay Yajaman

PNLIT is happy to announce a unique story telling + activity event for children. Let your children listen to TWO exciting stories: The Generous Crow Kaka and Munni. The story tellers are Nupur Aggarwal

Editors' Blog

More Citizen Matters writers are now book authors!

May 15, 2012 Subramaniam Vincent

A couple of years ago, we talked about some of our writers who had authored books. We are now happy to share that more Citizen Matters writers have jumped into the bandwagon of published authors.

Volunteer Diary

Recycling scrap in Bengaluru for Ladakh

August 27, 2010 Pushpa Achanta

Where is the world’s highest motorable road? And the nectar of seabuckthorn (better known as Leh berry)? In Leh, Ladakh, obviously! As many of us know, recently, terrible landslides and flash floods devastated this exotic

Notebook covers are made from trees too

May 31, 2010 Meera K

Lakhs of students, millions of books, thousands of trees! It’s that time of the year again. All parents are busy collecting books from schools and covering them in brown paper sheets. They are busy shopping