Excerpted from S Hussain Zaidi’s ‘Black Friday- The True Story of the Bombay Bomb Blasts.’ By the time Yaqub Abdul Razak Memon, the third of the Memon brothers, was in his early thirties, he had already acquired the reputation of being the best read and smartest criminal that the Bombay police had ever known. But Yaqub’s story was unusual…. Read more →
It is not always that you get a peek into the bad world of Bollywood from an insider. When Bollywood baddie Amjad Khan’s son Shadaab writes a thriller called Murder in Bollywood, you wonder if a true account lurks in it. Agar Gabbar ka beta murder ki baat kar raha hai, toh usme koi sachchai hai kya? Find out in… Read more →
Is Hinduism greater than Islam, or vice versa? Is Urdu better then Hindi? These questions aren’t new, but seem to have been around since the time the languages came into being. Sadat Hasan Manto shows us the frivolity of the comparison and offers a solution too in his story Hindi-Urdu. Woodpie brings you the story excerpted from the book My… Read more →
Seven years ago a teenage girl, Aarushi Talwar, was found murdered in her bedroom in Noida, a middle-class suburb of Delhi. The body of the prime suspect—the family servant, Hemraj—was discovered a day later. Who had committed the double murders, and why? Within weeks, Aarushi’s parents, the Talwars, were accused; four years later, they went on trial and were convicted…. Read more →
From revealing the number of books in the Ramchandra Series, his religious beliefs, and the current book he is reading, Amish bared himself to his fans in a twitter chat. On a question by Woodpie about the book that influenced his life, he replied: Too many to count. If just one book has had a dominant influence on you, then… Read more →
A reader is never alone, neither does he become a reader on his own. There is always a Book Friend. There is someone associated with the books in a reader’s life. Someone who introduced you to books. Someone who presented you with a book that touched your life. Someone who recommended a book when you were low. The one who… Read more →
