
Book Review: ‘The Ordeal’ by Mangesh Jadhav
ISBN: 9789381115428 Format: Paperback Pages: 424 Price: INR 445 Language: English ‘The Ordeal‘ by Mangesh Jadhav is a welcome break from all the chic lit college love stories flooding the contemporary Indian market. ‘The Ordeal’ is a suspense thriller in the backdrop of NASA, France and Russia. Being priced at a whopping 445 INR, it...

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 Review: ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ by Mohsin Hamid
Language: English Price: INR 250 ISBN: 9780143064244 Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard I am a lover of America… ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist‘ is the story of a Pakistani man named Changez. Throughout the book, a short one at...

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: ‘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: ‘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 White Tiger’ by Arvind Adiga
Price: INR 299 Pages: 318 ISBN: 1416562591 Language: English ‘The White Tiger‘ is a book on the reality of life, the shortest route to reach success and the foolishness of man to boast about his shortcomings – a feature one can debate is found in every fifth Indian; Arvind Adiga presents the life of one...

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...

Book Review: ‘Moving On’, by Jaya Jha
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9788190972093 Pages: 248 Price: 150.00 Plot Discussion: Rarely does a novel knocks at your brain’s door and makes its way to your heart. ‘Moving On’ by Jaya Jha is just one of those.

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...