Today's Weekend Reading stories: Looking for Ashoka-inspired relics in Southeast Asia, leading to a magical discovery; Akhil Sharma’s novel and its message of the transformative power of reading; Ashok Parthasarathi, former scientific adviser to Indira Gandhi and Delhi-based filmmaker Ramesh Sharma tells us what they're reading currently.
Re-searching Ashoka in Thailand
A biographer of the Emperor goes looking for Ashoka-inspired relics in Southeast Asia — landing a magical discovery.
>Read more »Turning over another leaf
It is fitting that Akhil Sharma’s novel, with its message of the transformative power of reading, has won a fiction prize determined by libraries.
>Read more »The book in my hand
A weekly column on what well-known personalities are reading and planning to read. This week, it is Ashok Parthasarathi and Ramesh Sharma.
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