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This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for America’s Future

by NewsdeskBooksLITE BLOGSUSAMarch 28, 2022March 29, 2022

According to leaked excerpts of the book to Politico, the relationship between the Biden and Harris camps is getting worse and is now characterised by anger, mutual contempt and turf…

Unfilled barrels: India’s oil story

by NewsdeskBooksBusinessMarch 24, 2022March 24, 2022

It was in Delhi in the late 1990s that her journey as a reporter on the oil sector started and today, for her, nothing is more exciting than the movement…

‘Mujib: The making of a nation’

by NewsdeskBollywoodBooksFilmsMarch 24, 2022March 24, 2022

He further added, “Perhaps that was one of the challenges yet exciting elements for a filmmaker to encapsulate different elements of his life into a film.”…reports Asian Lite News Veteran…

What’s within you: Crafting a purpose statement

by NewsdeskBooksIndia NewsLITE BLOGSMarch 23, 2022March 23, 2022

What keeps you focused month after month, year after year? Vision is about allowing your core values to reveal a foundational and sustainable purpose for your life…writes Vishnu Makhijani How…

Making the ‘submarine’

by NewsdeskBooksLITE BLOGSMarch 21, 2022March 21, 2022

It’s a sub-genre that lends itself well to visual depiction — remember how many of the James Bond films (not the books though) featured submarines, or for that matter, Tintin’s…

Door stoppers for modern era of reading

by NewsdeskBooksLITE BLOGSMarch 15, 2022March 16, 2022

For such books, the reading time will need to be measured in weeks, or months, and for the casual, not very committed, readers, it could stretch to a year…reports Vikas…

 ‘A History of Sriniketan – Rabindranath Tagore’s pioneering work in rural reconstruction’ 

by NewsdeskBooksLITE BLOGSMarch 12, 2022March 12, 2022

“It drew attention on the peasantry as the largest class within Indian society who were paralysed by anachronistic traditions and weighed down by poverty and the absence of education,” she…

‘March’ towards worthy reading

by NewsdeskBooksLITE BLOGSMarch 12, 2022March 12, 2022

The ideas shared are relevant to people from the age of fifteen years onwards, from high-school students and early and senior professionals to CEOs…reports Asian Lite News Books are our…

‘Read Latur’: Effort to set up libraries across rural schools

by NewsdeskBooksLITE BLOGSMarch 12, 2022March 12, 2022

I’ve been asking friends and publishers to come forward and help us build these rural libraries, whether it’s with one book or many. We can all work together to instil…

‘The bluebook: A writer’s journal’

by NewsdeskBooksLITE BLOGSMarch 10, 2022March 10, 2022

He says that we are surrounded by chaos, and art helps bring order to it. The same is true of diaries — there is a reason why therapists tell survivors…