
Book Review: ‘Come on, Inner Peace (I don’t have all day!)’ by Sachin Garg
Format: Paperback ISBN: 978981841303 Pages: 238 Price: INR 100 “If a book can change lives, this one definitely will. A heart warming story, with a very strong message. Must read for everyone.” – Rohit Gore Occasionally, you come across a novel that promises ‘to help you a find out a thing or two...

Book Review: ‘Life of Pi’ by Yann Martel
ISBN: 9780143028482 Language: English Binding: Paperback Pages: 336 Awards: The Man Booker Prize Winner ‘Life of Pi’ by Yann Martel claims that it will turn you into a believer of the Almighty. With a young boy stranded at sea with a Bengal Tiger on board, the book can swing from wonderfully good to horribly bad. Thankfully for...

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 Review: ‘The Suicide Banker’ by Puneet Gupta
Language: English Pages: 279 ISBN: 8129117894 Price: INR 195 ‘Suicidal Banker‘ by Puneet Gupta has a Statutory Warning quite aptly printed at the top of the back cover page, that reads, This Novel could inspire more fraudsters than financiers! A compulsory reading for unscrupulous borrowers who don’t want to repay their bank loans! When you...

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: ‘Want to Stay Alive?’ by James Hadley Chase
Language: English Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780586038505 Pages: 159 Price: 75.0 Rene Brabazon Raymond might not be much of a name, but you have to hand it to this man. He single-handedly set the bar for thriller writing, and also for being awesome. With 90 titles under his moniker of James Hadley Chase, each of them...

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: ‘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...