Book News: Hyderabad Literary Fest 2019 – Schedule & Program Details
Hyderabad Literary Fest 2019 starts from January 25th and will last till Jan 27th. This year it will be held at The Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet. Want to be a part of it? Register at the HLF official website: https://www.hydlitfest.org/register-here/ HLF 2019 is organized by “Hyderabad Literary Trust” in association with the Government of Telangana...
Best Fantasy books of 2018
Goodreads Annual Choice Awards is in its 10th year this time. It’s one of the major book awards that is solely decided by the readers through online votes in its portal. Over the years it gained popularity and its reputation pulled in the readers this time as well to decide on the best books of...
Best Mystery & Thriller books of 2018
Goodreads Annual Choice Awards is in its 10th year this time. It’s one of the major book awards that is solely decided by the readers through online votes in its portal. Over the years it gained popularity and its reputation pulled in the readers this time as well to decide on the best books of...
Best Fiction books of 2018
Goodreads Annual Choice Awards is in its 10th year this time. It’s one of the major book awards that is solely decided by the readers through online votes in its portal. Over the years it gained popularity and its reputation pulled in the readers this time as well to decide on the best books of...
Book Review: ‘The Temple Tiger and more man-eaters of Kumaon’ by Jim Corbett
Publisher: Rupa Publications Language: English ISBN: 9788129141859 Price: 140 INR Pages: 128 Where ‘Man-eaters of Kumaon‘ ended, started the journey of ‘The Temple Tiger and more man-eaters of Kumaon’ by Jim Corbett. If ‘Man-eaters of Kumaon‘ made Jim Corbett the most well-known wildlife specialist, naturalist and author in the country, ‘The Temple Tiger and more...
Book Review: ‘Man-eaters of Kumaon’ by Jim Corbett
Publisher: Rupa Publications Language: English ISBN: 9788129140364 Price: 140 INR Pages: 170 ‘Man-eaters of Kumaon‘ is undoubtedly the best book written by the revered tracker-turned-environmentalist, author and naturalist Jim Corbett. Jim Corbett is famous for his hunting of man-eating tigers and leopards in different places in the mountainous terrains of North India. In 1957, the...
Book Review: ‘The Company of Women’ by Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Penguin India Language: English ISBN: 9780140290479 Price: 399 INR Pages: 232 ‘The Company of Women‘ by Khushwant Singh might be one of the reasons the critics used to mockingly call him the ‘dirty old man‘ of Indian journalism. The other novel which might help the naysayers to stay firm on their logic is his...
Book Review: ‘Subhas and Sarat’ by Sisir Kumar Bose
Publisher: Aleph Language: English ISBN: 9789383064144 Price: 599 INR Pages: 278 “Uncle Subhas’s habit of working till very late was known to all, including the police. We incorporated this into our plan for his escape from Calcutta (and India) in January, 1941. He instructed by cousin Ila that the lights in his first-floor bedroom in...
Book Review: ‘Don’t Let Him Know’ by Sandip Roy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Language: English ISBN: 9789384052416 Price: INR 499 Pages: 244 No, not ‘Ray’ – if you are Bengali enough to be inquisitive and have visited the link to this review just because of the surname, let me give you a gentle reminder – as you should not judge a book by its cover, you...
Book Review: ‘Anatomy of Life’ by Devdan Chaudhuri
Publisher: Pan Macmillan India Language: English ISBN: 9789382616306 Price: INR 350 Pages: 276 Narratives are rare. Rarer are good narratives. ‘Anatomy of life’, the debut novel of Devdan Chaudhuri, was nominated for Tibor Jones South Asia Prize 2013. That certainly speaks a lot about it. Apprehensive as always, this book made my decision to take...
Book News: ‘Murder of Sonia Raikkonen’ by Salil Desai will chill you to the bone!
~ ‘Murder of Sonia Raikkonen’ has launched in India in February, 2015 ~ About The Book: Late one November night, the mutilated corpse of a young Finnish tourist is found in a public garden in Pune. It looks like a case of brutal rape and murder, but Senior Inspector Saralkar and PSI Motkar find...
Book News: A modern story of an ancient Mad Nation – ‘Autobiograhy of a Mad Nation’ by Sriram Karri
~ ‘Mad Nation’ has launched in India in February, 2015 ~ About The Book: If I had to choose between letting down A friend or my country, God, give me the strength to betray my nation. ‘I was born in a mentally retarded country.’ Thus begins this provocative, stylish, and racy literary rant against India...