A weekly column on what well-known personalities are reading and planning to read. This week, it is Pushpa Bhargava, the founding director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology and Vikas Swarup, spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs.
Pushpa Bhargava
SrikantaNoukadubiSrikantaSrikantaThe Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of CancerPushpa Bhargava is the founding director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology.
Vikas Swarup
The last book I read was The New Threat from Islamic Militancy by Jason Burke, the former South Asia correspondent of The Guardian . Burke has been tracking terror groups for some time and is an expert on the al-Qaeda. He presents a sobering analysis of the phenomenon of the Islamic State and how it is affecting the world.
Vikas Swarup, spokesperson of the Ministry of External Affairs, is the author of Q&A , which was adapted for the film Slumdog Millionaire