
Book Review: ‘Safe Haven’ by Nicholas Sparks
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9780751543001 Pages: 352 Price: 350 INR The next time you leave a bookstore thinking Nicholas Sparks’ books to be overly-sappy; think twice. ‘Safe Haven‘ is a refreshingly, off-base Sparks’ book which keeps the reader engaged right until the end of the journey. The book is not a counterpole to his...

Book Review: ‘Life is what you make it’ by Preeti Shenoy
Language: English. Format: Paperback ISBN: 9789380349305 Pages: 209 Price: 100 INR “This is frightening, this world without words, this world of darkness and void. I don’t want to be here anymore. I want to make it stop…… To be trapped like this in one’s own body is a fate worse than death. With death, at...

Book Review: ‘Collision of Dimensions’ by M.V. Ravi Shanker
Language: English Format: Paperback ISBN: 9789381576724 Pages: 530 Price: 345.0 M.V. Ravi Shanker has managed to shake off any doubts I may have had about Indian authors. Yes, every second book that you will see on the street nowadays is infallibly the story of some starry eyed college student who managed to fall in love...

Book(s) Review/Discussion: ‘Caliban Trilogy’ (Isaac Asimov’s) by Roger McBride Allen
Language: English Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780441090792(Isaac Asimov’s Caliban) ISBN: 9783404242184(Isaac Asimov’s Inferno) ISBN: 9780441004713(Isaac Asimov’s Utopia) Science fiction, at its heart, is one of the easiest and the most difficult genres to write for. Easiest because you have complete freedom with what you want to create, as long as what you create can be fathomed...

Book Review: ‘Solo’ by Rana Dasgupta
Price: INR 395 Pages: 357 Language: English ISBN: 0007182147 Solo by British-Indian writer Rana Dasgupta is one-of-a-kind, and worth every prize that it has been awarded (including the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize). The book is divided into two parts, into two novellas – almost called “Dreams” and “Day-dreams” respectively. The first part follows the seemingly pitiable...

Book Review: ‘An Idiot, Placement and IntervYOU’ by Toffee
Language: English Format: Paperback ISBN: 9789380942872 Pages: 189 Price: 195.0 I have expressed my disdain of engineers writing books with just “money” on their minds earlier (refer to the review of Love Cocktail). Today, I am glad to say that I have been proven wrong on some counts. This book is an honest effort on...

Book Review: ‘The Palace of Illusions’, by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9780330458535 Pages: 384 Price: 395.00 Plot Discussion: Reading this book is like taking a journey through the epic that is Mahabharata and seeing it all through the eyes of Draupadi. It is a very good read for someone who has never read the actual tale and even a better one for someone...

My experience with Internshala – Part 2 (The Story of a Start-Up – Few Pointers)
This is a story of a start up. X and Y co-founded a company, a dream that used to drive one of them crazy. And after years of hardships and planning and what not, today they are a growing company and a well known name in its own domain. When X and Y decide to...

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...