“Truth is stranger than fiction, so I did not have too much grey area.”

Lisa Ray talks about the process of writing her memoir, how her career was an accident, how she’s been able to stay within the circle of glamour and yet out of it.

The average American reads 12 or 13 books a year, but with over 3 million books in print, the choices they face are staggering, writes Albert-László Barabási, Robert Gray Dodge Professor of Network Science, Northeastern University. Despite the introduction of 100,000 new titles each year, only a tiny fraction of these attract a large enough […]

Bollywood actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui‘s ex-girlfriend Sunita Rajwar has now filed legal case against him, asking for Rs 2 crore as compensation for exposing their relationship in public. Those of you who are unaware, Nawazuddin had recently published his biography ‘An Ordinary Life’. But he faced backlash for revealing details about his former co-stars and love interests. […]

It was the 2008 summer Olympics. Olympians were flying off to Beijing to mark the day memorable. Olympic Gold Medalist Sanya Richards-Ross was fighting her own private battle. The five-time Olympic medalist Richards-Ross has just released a new memoir in which she mentioned about having an abortion just weeks before sprinting in the 2008 Summer Olympic […]

She is just seven years old, but her achievements go far beyond her years. Syrian refugee girl, Bana Alabed, became an advocate for war-torn Aleppo with one tweet and the face caught global attention. Now she is ready to publish her memoirs. Bana is reportedly penning horrific stories of the war from her own experience of the Syria conflict.

Padma Lakshmi has said on record more than once that she’s a feminist and … unlikely to be able to be friends with anyone who isn’t. I got a chance to meet her for a quick interview today and to moderate a Facebook Live with her for her publisher HarperCollins India — and she laughs when […]

‘Top Chef’ producer Padma Lakshmi and food critic Rashmi Uday Singh kicked off the Kala Ghoda Festival in Mumbai over the weekend, by participating in a delightful discussion, where Lakshmi spoke about her memoir, Love, Loss and What We Ate, and her new cookbook, Spices and Herbs. Lakshmi said that it took her five years […]

Rosalyn D’Mello talks about her memoir ‘A Handbook for My Lover’. The book is an account of her relationship with a prominent man who is 30 years older than her, and about how she made sense of this unique dynamic.