When it comes to memoirs, there is always a risk of them being perceived as hagiographies. The author can get so immersed in chronicling his or her journey that quite often readers are relegated to the sidelines. Soha Ali Khan’s debut book The Perils of being Moderately Famous is a refreshing change from the usual regular memoirs that hit the shelves. The …

It was just a few weeks into the release of his book that Nawazuddin Siddiqui publicly apologised and declared that he would be withdrawing his book from the market. ‘An Ordinary Life’ was written by Nawazuddin Siddiqui and co-authored by Rituparna Chatterjee. The negative reaction by the people who were written about in the book compelled Siddiqui to withdraw the …