Destination Russia is a fascinating book. It has a full name ‘Destination Russia: A ship and a cat in the tundra and other extra-ordinary encounters.’ It is written by Roberta Melchiorre and Fabio Bertino. I totally loved the start of the book. It talks about the authors reserving tickets from Warsaw to Belarus with the…
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The Nanda Devi Affair by Bill Aitken is an Excellent Book
Moving around the tiny market known as Sister’s Bazaar in Landour, I was busy buying jams at the famous Prakash and Co. I was in the area on invitation from JW Marriott Mussoorie Walnut Grove Resort and Spa. On the trip I met Anil Purohit of Windy Skies after a gap of seven years. While…
You Can Make Your Dreams Work by Shalini Umachandran
I recently finished reading You Can Make Your Dreams Work: Inspirational Stories of 15 Innovators by Shalini Umachandran. Shalini and I were together on the media trip to South Africa in 2013. We had a grand plan of driving through Botswana (or was it Tanzania) with another of our team member, I hope they still remembers…
The Story of Tublu by Jahid Akhtar
My love for books is older than my love for travel. But with Chhavi around reading has gone down. So when I got Story of Tublu: An Amazing Journey Called Life from Jahid Akhtar I was not sure how long I would take to finish it. I took it on my trip to Shivpuri and…
The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti
The Almond Tree is the debut novel of Michelle Cohen Corasanti. I was quite intrigued by the fact that Corasanti is a female Jew who writes this book in the voice of a Palestine male! To begin with I was not sure if it could be done but after reading the book I have changed…
The Guardian Angels by Rohit Gore
I finished reading The Guardian Angels by Rohit Gore. at my recent trip to Pushkar. The blue star that you see in the picture of the book is not from the publishers. Chhavi put it on the book from her collection of her stickers. So what if she can’t read a book now, she has…