When I read the name of the book a few weeks ago on Flipkart’s list of Pre-Order books, I somehow found it interesting, and since it was for just Rs 105, I ordered the book right away. Fast forward to December 1, when I got an email from office mail room saying there was a [...]
Continue reading about Book Review: ‘Two Fates: The Story of My Divorce’ by Judy Balan
Chetan Bhagat this time takes one of the most simple and highly used stories — A love triangle. And at the outset, there is nothing special in the story, except that it is written by him. But then, this does make a difference. Chetan’s novels are known for their quality of engaging a person, and [...]
Continue reading about Revolution 2020 by Chetan Bhagat: Book Review
The book is a collection of poems written by a sixteen year old on various topics ranging from coffee to friendships to even Dr Manmohan Singh. There is a range of myriad emotions depicted through various poems in the book. The poems are written in very simple sentences and most of them seem like a [...]
Continue reading about Silhouettes Unravelled by Advika Gupta (Book Review)
Shivani, to me, is an author who could say things very deep, even while talking of stories that are, say, next door. I have read some of her novels, and some memoirs that she wrote later. But even with them, you don’t get that picture of Shivani that Ira talks about here. While on one [...]
Continue reading about Diddi: Hamari Maa Shivani, by Ira Pandey (Book Review)
Here is a review of Amish Tripathi’s second novel, The Secret of the Nagas, by Soorya. It’s a perfect sequel! A one in a thousand case where (especially) an Indian author writes a trilogy and the sequel is as thrilling as the first book, if not better. Applause for Amish Tripathi for pulling it off [...]
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I had just read Hello Bastar and once I had finished the book in a day, I wanted to know more. I got the reference to Satnam’s Jangalnama in Hello Bastar only and I decided to read this as well since I had hardly read a thing about the Maoists and what was happening in [...]
Continue reading about Jangalnama by Satnam: Book Review (English, 2010)
Till yesterday, I hardly knew a thing about the Maoist movement in India. Except for the number of Police men and people killed by them, and a few articles here and there which could only tell, at best, that the other side of story wasn’t being shown, something quite obvious. But then, while reading Rahul [...]
Continue reading about Hello Bastar (Rahul Pandita): Book Review
Almost a month go when I received this story book, Down the Road, to write a review of, I thought I’d read it cover to cover within 2-3 days, maximum a week and get the review out. But as it generally happens with story books, it took me a month passing through the mixed bag [...]
One day a Twitter friend randomly asked if I was interested in a book review. I had not done much book reviews in past some days, so I randomly said yes, and he said he’d send the book. Then there were some delays from both sides and finally after some three and half weeks I [...]
Continue reading about Book Review: Another Chance (Ahmed Faiyaz)
Yet another debut novel by an Indian author. But Broken News is more than a college-goer’s love story. It gives you a peep into the world of news, the world that lies behind the TV screens in our drawing rooms. Oh yes, that’s what they say, even though I sometimes wonder if all people keep [...]
Continue reading about Book Review: Broken News by Amrita Tripathi
Frankly, it’s not really a book review. It’s more of a love affair with a book which happens to be my hardly-known-to-me hero’s autobiography. Biddu was a name that I had read a lot of times, on a lot of tracks that I loved during the Indipop revolution of mid to late ’90s. And so, [...]
The story of buying Dilli to Pagal Hai (DTPH) is interesting. I was in the Bangalore Book Festival, which is running from 6th to 15th November, 2009. I had been through the bookfair and was tired, having a plain Dosa and Appy while my friend told me that we had bought total 13 books. And [...]
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