2013 – At a glance
2013, undoubtedly, has been the busiest and the most eventful year in the short lifespan of Between The Lines. We are turning two in first week of January, 2014 and what can be a better time for some retrospection. If you prefer number crunching, 2013 for Between The Lines gives us some interesting statistics. This...
Book Review: ‘The Wind-up Bird Chronicle’ by Haruki Murakami
Language: English Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780099448792 Pages: 607 Price: Rs 450 Last year, when I decided to give Murakami a try, the curiousness was to find out why Murakami is what Murakami is. I have read a lot of writers’ works, but never did anyone create as much positive hype and adulation as Haruki managed...
Book Review: ‘The Incredible Banker’ by Ravi Subramanian
Language: English Format: Paperback ISBN: 9788129118776 Pages: 308 Price: 250 INR As a reader, I’ve always been skeptical of Indian authors. After reading a lot of them, I’ve been left with an unpleasant taste in the mouth. Perhaps I’ve always picked up the wrong books, but they either tend to brood purely on the philosophical,...
Book Review: ‘Office Shocks’ by Sumit Aggarwal
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9788129117908 Pages: 98 Price: 95.00 Plot Discussion: When was the last time you read a 98-pages’ ‘novel’? When was the last time you read a 98-pages’ ‘novel’ and did not complain? ‘Office Shocks’ by Sumit Aggarwal really is a shocker. Happened like this: I was waiting for the book to arrive some fortnight...
Book Review: ‘Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul – A Book of Miracles’ by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Raksha Bharadia
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9789381626368 Pages: 333 Price: 295.00 ‘Chicken Soup for the Indian Soul – A Book of Miracles’ is a compilation by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Raksha Bharadia. Raksha Bharadia is the well-acclaimed editor of more than one titles in the ‘Chicken Soup for Indian Soul’ series, and Jack Canfield and...
Book Review: ‘Focus Sam’ by Rohit Gore
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 8129117452 Pages: 349 Price: 195.00 ‘Focus Sam’ by Rohit Gore is a suspense story of a guy who gets to know that he is going to die in an year. The only way he can survive is to live two weeks with all the women he had an affair with and convince...
Transition from Classroom to the Corporate World – What You Need to Know?
This is exactly where most of us go wrong. The adaptation part I meant. Bungee-jumping into the corporate world without prior and proper homework is like the most innovative self-killing method ever invented. College binds students with academic assignments and tasks which can be solved by copybook methods or by sharing notes among friends. But...
Virtual internships – A Student’s Perspective
Rajeev has graduated recently and is waiting to join the permanent posting with the company he was recruited by on the campus. In the meanwhile, Rajeev has decided that he won’t just sit back home, and rather will spend his time meaningfully. And hence came up the idea of doing an internship. Soon enough he...
Book Review: ‘Temple Of Destiny’ by Neeraj Singhvi
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9788122311655 Pages: 183 Price: 175.00 ‘Temple of Destiny’ by Neeraj Singhvi has a tagline of ‘Faith in Oneself is Greater than any Faith on Earth’. As simple as that. And this single line offers a near-perfect gist to what the author means to express throughout the 182 pages of the...
Book Review: ‘Autumn In My Heart’ by Saptarshi Basu
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9789380828541 Pages: 162 Price: 150.00 ‘Autumn In My Heart’ by Saptarshi Basu is the tale of the quintessential human being we all have inside us. Be it the Software Engineer guy Deb, or the forced-by-family-to-get-married girl Ayantika, or the other parallel characters like Sagarika, Sujoy, Priyanka, and the office colleagues...
Book Review: ‘Vivek and I’ by Mayur Patel
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9780143067924 Pages: 384 Price: 299.00 ‘Vivek was all I wanted. I was ready to do anything for him. He reminded me of Krishna, the love that I had lost and yet he was so different—young, innocent, totally oblivious to the ills of the world, unmindful of my deep desire to...
Book Review: ‘Haunted’ by Douglas Misquita
For a debut writer Douglas Misquita, 'Haunted' as a novel is too well written, executed and planned. His wit and an eye for detail enthralls the readers. The front cover has a meaning attached to it when you look at it carefully. The black and white resembles the ying and yang in the life of...