A Bowlful of Butterflies by Ritu Lalit is written with teenage charm and at the beginning I will suggest to read it; reasons being – it is cute (okay, it is a girl’s way to describe!); it reminds you of your teenage days and all you people who have siblings will relate to the...
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The dearth of Indian crime fiction has been partially saved by the novel ‘Six Suspects‘ written by Vikas Swarup, better known for his novel, ‘Q and A’ that was adapted into the Oscar winning film, ‘Slumdog Millionaire.’ While ‘Q and A’ was a rather amateurish, not at all researched book with bits of faulty...
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We have so many Indian mythological characters that have a lot of powers but still we have very less contemporary Indian superheroes like Spiderman, Batman, Superman etc. And similarly I have always wondered why we don’t have more fantasy fiction when we have Things like Ramayana and Mahabharata for inspiration. But this book- Immortals...
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Author: Agatha Christie Lead Character: Hercule M. Poirot Genre: Fiction, Crime Thriller, Murder Mystery Who do you think is the best detective character after Sherlock Holmes? Do you even know other characters? Well, in case you don’t know let me introduce to you Hercule M. Poirot, A Belgian by Birth but settled in UK...
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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...
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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,...
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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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