Essay: ‘Nadine Gordimer: Portrait of a writer’ by Barnil Bhattacharjee
“Come away, O human Child!/ To the waters and the wild/With a faery, hand in hand,/ For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” ~ Yeats, The Stolen Child Visibly distraught, she slowly stood up from the podium chair. Turning right, she started walking across to the microphone. Hundreds of eyeballs, stretched-out...
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: ‘The Song of Achilles’ by Madeline Miller
“Name one hero who was happy.” I considered. Heracles went mad and killed his family; Theseus lost his bride and father; Jason’s children and new wife were murdered by his old; Bellerophon killed the Chimera but was crippled by the fall from Pegasus’ back. “You can’t.” He was sitting up now, leaning forward. “I can’t.”...
Book Review: ‘The Ancient Book’ by Parikshit Rane
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9381115039 Pages: 82 Price: 95.00 Plot Discussion: ‘The Ancient Book’, penned by Parikshit Rane is a child fantasy novella oriented for readers who belong to secondary school or beginners in English. Crafted with mystic creatures with the most conventional forms of army that old fantasy minds think of; from dragons to thorns cum...
Book Review: ‘Campus Cola’ by N Sampath Kumar
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9788129117816 Pages: 340 Price: 295.00 Plot Discussion: It is strictly not a regular book, if you have an attention span of a 16 year old teenager. I Would recommend you NOT To read this book! I must add, if you can focus even a little, you would enjoy the subtle humour and philosophy...
Book Review: ‘I Never Thought I Could Fall In Love’ by Chanchaldeep Singh Sandhu
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9780143415022 Pages: 164 Price: 100.00 Plot Discussion: A breezy 154 page reciting tales of an uncontrollable hormonal flush in a boy is a perfect remedy if you feel overtly sophisticated by the numerous classics available for consumption. A pop fiction with no intentions of becoming a literary artwork, “I Never Thought I Could...
Book Review: ‘Shiver’ by Maggie Stiefvater
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 978184774028 Pages: 400 Price: 550.00 Plot Discussion: Supernatural romances have been done and done again, and I am not ashamed to say that I have read and enjoyed a few of them but Maggie Stiefvater brings something extra to hers. Shiver is the first book in the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy...
Interview: Paritosh Uttam, author of ‘Dreams in Prussian Blue’
Paritosh Uttam is a well-known name in the current Indian English literature scenario. Today we have him on ‘Between The Lines’ on a quite detailed interview session with one of our team members. Let his words speak more of him. Biography: Pune-based software engineer and now a published writer. Author of ‘Dreams in Prussian Blue‘, published...
Book Review: ‘Tea – 20’ by Vinod Kumar S
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9789381576991 Pages: 125 Price: 125.00 Plot Discussion: Not every day one comes across a book that makes one think, smile, cry and laugh altogether. When I started with this collection of twenty short stories, I was reluctant about the same, but I am now glad that I was wrong. It’s a...
Book Review: ‘Navarasa by Lotus’ compiled by Rajiv Kumar
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9789381576847 Pages: 162 Price: 125.00 Plot Discussion: ‘Navarasa by Lotus’ is actually a compilation of short stories by Rajiv Kumar that are very intricately linked together by varied characters and scenes. Each story is dedicated to a distinct emotion or rasa. The nine stories are those of a convicted movie...
Interview: Saurav Vaish, author of ‘Love happens’
This is the interview of young published author Saurav Vaish, as he speaks his mind to array of queries from the BTL team. Biography: Saurav Vaish, a final year engineering student in Amity University, Noida discovered the writer within after a few life changing incidents. His tryst with writing started through essay writing competitions for which he...
Interview: Sumit Aggarwal, author of ‘Office Shocks’
We reviewed Sumit Aggarwal‘s ‘Office Shocks‘ here on BTL. To complete the cycle, we have Sumit today for a short interview on his book, and his future projects. Q1. Firstly, congratulations to you for your debut novel ‘Office Shocks’! When and why did you begin writing? Thanks. I think I read this quote somewhere which means – If...