Book Review: ‘Dream With Your Eyes Open’ By Ronnie Screwvala
Publisher: Rupa Publications Language: English ISBN: 9788129135889 Pages: 208 Price: INR 500 When you think of entrepreneurship, who better than the Jack Warner of India, Ronni Screwvala to share insights on how to be successful, and more importantly to learn from failures? In his new book, ‘Dream with your Eyes Open’, Ronnie shares experiences from...
Book Review: ‘Autobiography of a Mad Nation’ by Sriram Karri
Publisher: Fingerprint ISBN: 9788172345655 Pages: 384 Price: INR 450 “Autobiography of a Mad Nation is a striking work of imagination that any intelligent reader will love.” – Bashrat Peer, Author (Curfewed Night), Script Writer (Haider) In his second novel ‘Autobiography of a Mad Nation’, Sriram Karri takes up the herculean task of setting a story of...
Book Review: ‘Mirza Ghalib: A Biographical Scenario’ by Gulzar
Genre: Biography Publisher: Rupa Pages: 240 ISBN: 978-81-291-14112 Price: INR 395 It is hard to review the literary liaison of two greats – Ghalib and Gulzar. Both are giants in their own times and rightly so. In this book, which is a screenplay of the TV series of the same name, the brilliance of Gulzar...
Book Review: ‘Halt Station India’ by Rajendra B. Aklekar
Genre: Non–Fiction Publisher: Rupa Publications ISBN: 978-81-291-3497 Pages: 205 Price: INR 395 “Rajendra B. Aklekar’s research – and his scholarship with enables him to interpret his findings – throws new light on the way railways were built.” – Sir Mark Tully, author of Non-Stop India. Bombay is famous for numerous things, but the perhaps most...
Book Review: ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his Years of Pilgrimage’ by Haruki Murakami
Genre: Fiction Publisher: Harvill Secker Pages: 298 ISBN: 9781846558337 Price – INR 799 (Hardcover) It is not often that authors are accorded that reverence and frenzied admiration that is generally reserved for a rock band. But Haruki Murakami is one of the few. On the day his new book is released, I envision long lines...
Book Review: ‘Letters from an Indian Summer’ by Siddharth Dasgupta
Format: Paperback Language: English Publisher: Fingerprint! ISBN: 9788172345495 Pages: 328 Price: INR 250 Reading ‘Letters from an Indian Summer’ is like having delicious mughlai mutton curry for seven days in a row. Mind you, every meal – day and night, night and day – for a week straight. What are the consequences? Well, there’s constipation, gastric...
Book Review: ‘Unravelling Anjali’ by Nim Gholkar
Format: Paperback Publisher: BecomeShakespeare.com ISBN: 9789383952137 Pages: 355 Price: 239 INR The first thing that struck me about ‘Unravelling Anjali‘ by Nim Gholkar was its cover. It has a lovely ombre effect of reddish-orange tints and in the centre is the back of a girl. But instead of skin, her back is composed of jigsaw puzzles that...
Book Review: ‘Seven Uncommoners’ by Ridhima Verma
Publisher: Fingerprint! Format: Paperback Genre: Non-fiction ISBN: 9788172345396 Price: INR 350 Pages: 300 Today, entrepreneurship is considered the hip, cool thing. An entrepreneur is looked upon with awe and respect, for taking the brave step towards setting up his/her own business. But Ridhima Verma delves in to a different generation, when starting up was considered...
Book Review: ‘Hooked, Lined and Single’ by Rashmi Kumar
Language: English Format: Paperback Publisher: Srishti Publishers ISBN: 9789382665298 Pages: 200 Price: INR 150 All Indians unite over two things: food and marriages. While this book doesn’t delve in the former, it talks largely about the latter. This book talks about the difficulty of the arranged marriage system, and more largely, the pressure that is...
Book Review: ‘The Song of the Magpie Robin’ by Zafar Futehally with Shanthi Candola and Ashish Chandola
Language: English Format: Paperback ISBN: 9788129134684 Pages: 185 Price: 500 INR Zahar Futhehally was a birder and conversationalist. He has been bestowed upon with various accolades like the Padma Shri in 1970, the Order of Golden Ark in 1980 and was the longest serving secretary of the Bombay National History Society. He had founded the...
Book Review: ‘Beautiful You’ by Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Paperback Publisher: Doubleday ISBN: 9780385538039 Pages: 240 Price: 557 INR ‘A billion husbands are about to be replaced.’ Should you be worried? Not unless you are Palahniuk’s working staff. Making five dollars an hour and unable to pay his bills, Chuck Palahniuk had to say goodbye to learning journalism and greet workers daily at...
Book Review: ‘Mumbai Noir’ by Altaf Tyrewala
Format: Paperback Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 9789350292259 Pages: 274 Price: 350 ‘Tyrewala’s insightful introduction greatly enhances the reading experience… The collection is astonishingly diverse… Tyrewala’s anthology offers a sampling of brand-new authors and a superb introduction. It might provide a fictional contrast to Katherine Boo’s ‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers’.’ – Library Journal. It’s quite a...