Every book is a new world for me. I enjoy travelling through them so much that I record these travels as book reviews and notes. This is my bedside table.

Anarchic Humour: The Scandalous life of the Lawless Sisters (Criminally Illustrated with what was to hand) by Philip Ardagh

The Accidental Photographer: Manikda: Memories of Satyajit Ray by Nemai Ghosh

Travels in Eastern Europe: The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht

The Book That Peeps in to the Well: Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel

Of Insects Among Other Things: Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings by Kuzhali Manickavel

Ruritania Revisited: The Dragonfly Pool by Eva Ibbotson

Fearless Leela: Leela: A Patchwork Life by Leela Naidu with Jerry Pinto

Encountering variety-inducing vertigo: Some Rain Must Fall by Michel Faber

Feast for the eyes: Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi

Behind the scenes of the Freedom movement: Prison and Chocolate Cake by Nayantara Sahgal

Intimate portrait of a historic time: Prison and Chocolate Cake by Nayantara Sahgal

From the land of pizza, a tale of survival, larceny, and adventure: The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

Ten best reads I have ever come across-Part One: Five books that made an indelible impact on me 

Ten best reads I have ever come across: Part Two: Five more books that made an indelible impact on me

Emotional no-man’s land: Van de Graaff Days by Ven Begamudré   

Death is a jackal-headed Egyptian god: The Anubis Slayings by P. C. Doherty

A Japanese Jazz Symphony: South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

Art, Istanbul, Love, Islam, Philosophy, Power, and Pulchritude: My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

When women couldn’t wear pink socks: Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi

Murder most medievel: The Demon Archer by P. C. Doherty 

Mystery Egyptian style: The Horus Killings by P. C. Doherty

Love at first flight: The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The mystery of the missing spunk: The Mystery of the Blazing Cliffs (The Three Investigators Series) by M.V.Carey

To reading heaven and back: From Heaven Lake: travels in Sinkiang and Tibet by Vikram Seth