“Kailasa, A Journey Within” by Shamim Akhtar is a coffee table book on the holy Kailash Mansarovar yatra, which is as sacred to us Hindus, as it is to Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains. Unfortunately, Kailash Mansarovar lies within the occupied Tibet, thus ensuring that only a handful of devout each year, get to visit this [...]

Tomorrow is the unveiling of Kailasa, a coffee table book on Kailash Mansarovar by Shamim Akhtar, he is the same chap who had authored, Road to Heaven, Ladakh. If Road to Heaven, Ladakh is anything to go by, then I can’t wait to get a hold of a copy of Kailasa, which features a landscape [...]

From now on, I will be publishing all the book reviews (including travel book reviews) at ScribblesofSoul.com, which will not only feature book reviews from me, but also book reviews, poetry and proses from other co-authors, in a bid to ensure that a dedicated platform is given to the books, in particular books from Indian [...]

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India, is yet another travel book on India by William Dalrymple, whom I have come to respect and admire, after reading his various other books on the Indian Sub-Continent and thankfully, this book is no different! Of course where it does differs from the rest is [...]

Off late I haven’t been getting much time to read books, so Churchill’s Secret War by Madhusree Mukerjee, took me quite a bit time to finish, even though once I started reading it, I found it captivating, inspite of a serious narration issue, which somewhat put me off (more on that later). Churchill’s Secret War [...]