http://www.indianbookreviews.info We review Indian books. Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:08:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Maybe you are planning a trip to one of the exciting destinations around the world, or perhaps you are just interested in reading about them. Either way, you can find all the information you need by reading on of the available travel books. So put down those creepy old horror ... http://www.indianbookreviews.info/2008/07/18/the-best-travel-books/ Puffin Books was derived more than sixty years ago from Penguin Books, which came from the great mind of Allen Lane. In 1935, Allen Lane created the paperback from which came Penguin Books and grew into Puffin Books, which has since changed the world of childrens poetry as well as ... http://www.indianbookreviews.info/2008/07/18/a-puffin-history/ The Horse That Flew: How India's Silicon Gurus Spread Their Wings by Chidanand Rajghatta is a greatly appealing book about the history of the growth of the industry of information technology in India and the significant influence of immigrants that are Indian-American to the information technology industry of America. The ... http://www.indianbookreviews.info/2008/06/18/the-horse-that-flew-how-indias-silicon-gurus-spread-their-wings/ This book by Amitav Ghosh was published right around the same time as the death of Pol Pot. The news of the death brought back to the minds of the public the images of the ruthless extermination of one fourth of the population of Cambodia during the reign of the ... http://www.indianbookreviews.info/2008/06/10/dancing-in-cambodia-at-large-in-burma/ The author Shashi Tharoor is a diplomat for the United Nations as well as a novelist. His book, India: From Midnight to the Millennium, is an appealing account that shows off the grand skills of the novelist. In the chapter titled “Scheduled Castes, Unscheduled Change”, the author tells a story ... http://www.indianbookreviews.info/2008/06/10/india-from-midnight-to-the-millennium/ John Ortner's Where Every Breath is a Prayer is both engaging and enlightening. With this odyssey, he takes us to the past and each landscape tells a story of the heart and soul of the people. The photographic journey begins in Nepal, the place of birth of Gautama Buddha. John ... http://www.indianbookreviews.info/2008/05/25/where-every-breath-is-a-prayer/ The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar takes readers on a delectable journey across three generations of a fictional family, the Dorais of South India. The journey begins in 1899 at the end of World War II. The story takes place in the Chevathar village, a region famous for ... http://www.indianbookreviews.info/2008/05/12/the-house-of-blue-mangoes/