Articles by Sonya Dutta Choudhury
Book Box:Why Those in Power Fear Your Bookshelf
From Mumbai’s Crowds to Irawati Karve’s Legacy— why stories are your best defence
Published on Dec 07, 2024 04:27 PM IST
Book Box: The Secrets of Winter Reading
How you can use winter to change the way you read
Published on Nov 30, 2024 10:23 AM IST
Book Box: Are You in a Reading Race?
How Goodreads stats, TBRs, and prize lists are turning reading into a competitive sport—here’s how we can slow down and savour the pages.
Updated on Nov 23, 2024 10:24 AM IST
Book Box | Booker Prize-winning and other longlisted tales of the sea and sky
Soar into space, the sea, and serendipity with this year's Booker Prize-winning and shortlisted and longlisted novels.
Published on Nov 16, 2024 04:26 PM IST
Book Box | Fast-paced feel-good books
Read these four fast-paced reads to keep you company when the silence settles in or when you want to break a reading slump
Published on Nov 09, 2024 07:08 PM IST
Book Box | Discovering Kaikeyi, the woman behind the villain
How a book I didn’t want to read ended up changing my Diwali
Published on Nov 02, 2024 03:35 PM IST
Book Box | The art of brand storytelling with Suta Sarees
Explore the art of storytelling with Taniya Biswas of Suta Sarees, where every outfit carries a tale
Published on Oct 26, 2024 08:10 PM IST
Tunnel vision: How Elif Shafak helps to see the world differently
From Istanbul's domes to Himalayan rivers, some stories wait for the right moment—have you revisited a book that finally spoke to you?
Published on Oct 19, 2024 07:13 PM IST
Book Box | Why we need to read Nobel laureate Han Kang
From unsettling truths to brilliantly bizarre storytelling, here are seven reasons why the newest Nobel laureate is a must-read
Published on Oct 12, 2024 06:34 PM IST
Book Box | A book club travels to Uzbekistan
From sheesh kebabs to Scheherazade, the Juhu book club celebrates its twentieth anniversary by exploring the stories of the Silk Route
Published on Oct 05, 2024 07:32 PM IST
Book Box | Packing list for a book club
From Soviet reads to surprise novels, a book club packs a library for their Silk Route adventure—because running out of books is not an option!
Published on Sep 29, 2024 12:02 AM IST
Book Box | Why I hug trees
Walk through forests and books to discover the healing power of trees
Published on Sep 22, 2024 07:00 AM IST
Book Box | Why readers can't have enough of books about bookstores
These feel-good books about bookstores provide a soothing sense of well-being, a connection with the community and a return to the simple pleasures of life.
Published on Sep 15, 2024 08:00 AM IST
Book Box | How to stay calm
From breathing to boundaries, here are books to help you stay calm in an age of anxiety
Published on Sep 07, 2024 08:37 PM IST
Book Box | How to be alone
Read this Belgian-American poet and writer to inspire you when you are alone.
Published on Aug 31, 2024 06:26 PM IST
Book Box | Why leaders should read science fiction
These three sci-fi titles are an easy way to get you started on the road to being a better leader
Published on Aug 24, 2024 06:29 PM IST
Book Box | The Reading India Project
A book club sets aside bestseller lists, to discover India, one book at a time
Published on Aug 17, 2024 09:06 PM IST
Book Box | Eight life-changing books to read in your twenties and beyond
From inspiring stories of artists to tackling writer's block, these eight books make adulting easier.
Published on Aug 11, 2024 12:32 AM IST
Book Box | A browsing list of eight new and notable books
Here's a round-up of recent reads, a mix of genres that includes the latest Amor Towles and the forthcoming Matt Haig.
Published on Aug 03, 2024 08:18 PM IST
Book Box | Meet award-winning mystery writer Angie Kim
This Stanford and Harvard-educated former lawyer dips heavily into her own life and adds research to craft pacy and prizewinning whodunits
Published on Jul 28, 2024 12:19 AM IST
Book Box | Meet storytelling guru Sid Jain
Sid Jain's journey from stock market whiz to the man who adapts books to screen is full of quirky life lessons, like how you can land a job without a resume
Published on Jul 20, 2024 08:55 PM IST
Doppelgangers and dissonance: When Neil Gaiman and Alice Munro disappoint
Find answers to a readers dilemma in three different books — an award-winning non-fiction, a classic and a sci-fi police procedural
Published on Jul 13, 2024 08:04 PM IST
The leadership lessons from these 10 inspiring memoirs
A search through a universe of memoirs throws up real-life stories with leadership lessons for students of management
Published on Jul 07, 2024 01:30 AM IST
Book Box | The book club that cracked the personality code
A summer reading group discovers archetypes and the power of reading for relationships
Published on Jun 29, 2024 11:33 PM IST
Book Box | Three unexpected ways to introduce yourself
Experimenting with tell-me-about-yourself questions reveals creative ways of connecting with people
Published on Jun 23, 2024 12:37 AM IST
Meet V.V (Sugi) Ganeshananthan, this year's Women's Prize for Fiction winner
Ganeshananthan, the writer of a novel set during the Sri Lankan civil war, talks about the term ‘terrorist’, feminist reading groups and the craft of writing
Published on Jun 17, 2024 06:31 PM IST
Book Box | The difficulty of raising children in virtual and real worlds
The Anxious Generation by Jonathon Haidt raises questions about the best ways to raise healthy and happy children in both the virtual and the real worlds.
Published on Jun 09, 2024 01:23 AM IST
Book Box | Meet the history buff turned spy writer Ben Macintyre
Ben Macintyre on the psychology of spies and how to turn historical facts into riveting spy novels
Published on Jun 02, 2024 01:39 AM IST
Book Box | Why we need spy stories
From spotting the liar, to sharpening our intuition, reading spy stories is a fun way to pick up smart skills
Published on May 25, 2024 06:42 PM IST
Book Box | My emotional reading journey through the Women's Prize shortlist
Six shortlisted titles set in Sri Lanka, Palestine, China, and the Aussie outback take me on an emotional journey to find the perfect Women's Prize for Fiction
Published on May 19, 2024 12:02 AM IST