BETiC’s 13 innovation centres, across the country, starting with the one at IIT-Bombay, have now created 40 different novel and affordable medical devices. 16 such stories are chronicled in Prof B Ravi’s book ‘The Essence of Medical Device Innovation’, published by The Write Place', a division of Crossword Bookstores. The book became the subject of…
The I Want To Be An Author campaign Season 2 by Crossword Bookstores & The Write Place- the publishing arm of Crossword Bookstores was officially launched at Ryan International School, ICSE (Malad) in Mumbai today. The first Season of I Want To Be An Author took place in November 2017. School children from Mumbai participated wholeheartedly;…
Fail, Falter and then succeed: the ‘fluid’ paradigm Oxford scholar Ashish Jaiswal’s book fluid, which emerged as the #1 bestseller in educational philosophy on amazon soon after its pre-order launch , was the subject of discussion today at Crossword Bookstores, Kemps Corner! Hailed as a revolutionary book by scholars from Harvard, Yale and Oxford, one of the…
Crossword Bookstores has evolved into a centre for communities to connect with the literary world and the intellectual world. It has pioneered the entire experience of attending interactive sessions with authors, bringing readers closer to them that ever before, and changing the way books are being consumed today. To launch quizmaster Siddhartha Basu’s book, ‘A Quizzical…
Celebrating its 25th year, India’s leading bookstore chain, Crossword Bookstores, which has pioneered the lifestyle bookstore concept in India, has evolved to emerge as a culmination of cultural and social interaction for customers as well as authors and poets. Over the last decade, the entertainment industry has recognized the potential of books and crossed over to…
There are some gems nesting within the pages of well-known journalist Gauri Sinh’s book. Sample these. “Instant celebrity without necessary toil allows us to believe ourselves invincible.” or “Mistakes were costly and inconvenient to everybody-on ramp, in life.” The back page of her whodunit book, “The Miss India Murders” screams with the tagline- Twenty perfect contestants.…
A teenage author from Mumbai is now the youth ambassador to the Nobel Peace price winner Kailash Satyarthi’s Children’s Foundation. Neeha Gupta, a student of Jamnabai Narsee School in Juhu has authored a sci-fi book called Different. The author has pledged the accrued sales proceeds of her book to the Surakshit Bachpan Fund of the Kailash…