BOOKS OF THE WEEK

Educated: The international bestselling memoir by Tara Westover 

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A BETWEEN THE COVERS PICK

Selected as a book of the year by AMAZON, TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, VOGUE, IRISH TIMES, IRISH EXAMINER and RED MAGAZINE
'One of the best books I have ever read . . . unbelievably moving' Elizabeth Day
'An extraordinary story, beautifully told' Louise O'Neill
'A memoir to stand alongside the classics . . . compelling and joyous' Sunday Times
Tara Westover grew up preparing for the end of the world. She was never put in school, never taken to the doctor. She did not even have a birth certificate until she was nine years old.
At sixteen, to escape her father's radicalism and a violent older brother, Tara left home. What followed was a struggle for self-invention, a journey that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it.
'It will make your heart soar' Guardian
'Jaw-dropping and inspiring, everyone should read this book' Stylist
'Absolutely superb . . . so gripping I could hardly breathe' Sophie Hannah

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tara Westover was born in rural Idaho. She studied history at Brigham Young University and upon graduation was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She received an MPhil in intellectual history from Trinity College, Cambridge in 2009, and a PhD in the same subject in 2014.

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BOOKS OF THE WEEK

The Discovery of India

by Jawaharlal Nehru 

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A timeless exploration of India's history, culture and civilisational identity by one of its foremost nation-builders.

Nehru was an erudite—his knowledge of India’s traditions, history and culture made him one of the greatest leaders in the nation’s history.

The Discovery of India was written by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru during his imprisonment from 1942 to 1945 at Ahmednagar Fort in present-day Maharashtra by British colonial authorities, when India was at the threshold of independence. First published in 1946, this book remains a modern classic written by India’s first and longest-serving Prime Minister.

The Discovery of India traces the journey of India from the ancient history of her invaders to the final years of exploitation at the hands of the British. Drawing on his knowledge of the Upanishads, Vedas and historical texts, Nehru presents the development of India, beginning with the Indus Valley Civilisation and continuing through the socio-political transformations introduced by successive foreign powers, culminating in the contemporary period of his time.

Imprisoned alongside other freedom fighters such as Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Govind Ballabh Pant, Narendra Deva and Asaf Ali, Nehru used this period of confinement and intellectual exchange to document his reflections on India's diverse past. Providing a rich narrative of Indian history, philosophy and culture from the perspective of a leader striving for independence, this book reflects his personal and intellectual exploration of the idea of India.

This book was a successful attempt at capturing our nation’s lasting spirit—with a hope for a brighter future.

Part history, part philosophy and part personal reflection, The Discovery of India remains an essential work for anyone seeking to understand the roots of Indian civilisation and the ideas that shaped a modern nation.

The Index Series by The Bombay Circle Press brings you a curated collection of stories from and about the history of India. From the speeches of Netaji to the empires that shaped Bharat, each volume is thoughtfully compiled and edited by The Bombay Circle Press team.

The Discovery of India is the second volume in The Index Series and presents one of the most influential interpretations of India's past, written by a statesman whose vision helped shape its future.

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Long Live Books - Sneha

Books have had countless opportunities to become irrelevant, and yet, they haven’t.

What makes this interesting is not simply that books survived technological change, but that they survived cultural change. We live in a time shaped by speed. Everything around us is optimized to be faster, shorter, easier. Attention is fragmented into seconds. We are constantly encouraged to move on to the next thing.

Books resist this. A book does not adjust itself to your impatience. It does not become shorter because you are distracted. It does not compete aggressively for your attention. It simply exists, waiting. And that makes books strangely radical.

Most modern systems are built around engagement. They want to hold your attention, predict your preferences, and reduce the time between desire and satisfaction. Books ask for your time, attention, and patience. Reading is one of the few experiences left where progress cannot be outsourced. No one can read on your behalf, and no shortcut can replace the act itself. 

Perhaps that is also what makes bookstores so interesting. A bookstore is a strangely defiant space; people walk in without certainty. They browse without urgency, they pick up books they may never buy, read a few lines, and move to another.

From a transactional point of view, this makes little sense, and yet, it happens every day because bookstores do not only facilitate purchase; they facilitate consideration, and consideration is becoming rare. To consider something means to pause long enough for curiosity to form. 

Books ask for that pause. Bookstores protect it, and working at The English Book Depot, I get to witness this often.

People still walk in, they still browse, they still pause at shelves longer than they planned to. Books endure not because they keep up with the world, but because they refuse to. 

Long live books.