When it comes to reading books with power play, I trust no one else than John Grisham. He has a sense of power in his writing and personally I rate him more than Mario Puzo. (we can always agree to disagree!)
Joel Backman is a former powerful Washington Beltway lobbyist who was called ‘The broker’...
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Couple of weeks back, when i was randomly browsing a book store, a book caught my attention. To be precise two lines in the cover made me lift the book from the rack.
The title: The Book Thief
The tag line: When death tells a story, you really want to listen.
Once in hand, I also...
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Sea of Poppies tells us the story, set in the 19th century, in the India ruled by the British people; and revolves around the people living in Bengal, whose lives are dependent on opium, in some way or the other.
It starts with parallel stories of Deeti, who had a drug addicted husband; a...
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This story, "The word of Unbinding", explores her fictional universe of "Earthsea". This universe is an archipelago, amidst uncharted waters, where magic is a way of life . Technologically "Earthsea" is based in early Iron Age .The story also reveals a certain obsession with nature and trees among the people of Earthsea .
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“Prisoners of hate” is a story on how the claws of hatred brought out in the name of religion tears apart the innocence and life of three lead characters – Farhan, Madhav and Sanjay.Farhan’s father choose to stay back in Mumbai during partition while Sanjay’s grandparents leave behind their life in Karachi and...
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I shall not hear the nightingale , Khuswant singh’s second novel, is the story about love, pride, passion, religion, culture and all the things that represent Indianness. It is set in the pre-war conditions in 1942-43, when the British government was thinking to free India.
The story starts with Sher Singh and his revolutionary...
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