Posts Tagged ‘ Indian authors ’

As the name suggests, it is a story of a Mistress of Spices! Sounded interesting hence I chose this one to read. It is written by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni who also wrote “Arranged Marriage”, a book which I honestly did not know until I read this title. Mistress of Spices is a story of...
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  ‘The white tiger’ is the debut novel of the novelist Mr. Aravind Adiga and is the winner of the man booker prize in 2008. This book is a first person account- in form of a letter written by the narrator to the president of China- Mr. Wen Jiabao. The narrator, Balram halwai writes...
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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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Don’t be confused! This is the title of the book which I read at a pace even I am surprised. I have read it 3 times! Well, I am not sure why did I read it 3 times but I did and I think I can read it yet again. When I first saw...
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The Bengali Original – Chokerbali was written by Tagore. Its Translation is titled Binodini in English. Apparently, Binodini was what Tagore intially thought of naming his Bengali book – not sure how it ended up being called Chokerbali. I watched the movie Chokerbali – starring Aishwarya Rai. But, as in most cases, the book...
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  C.V Murali is an Indian author by choice and engineer by profession. His debut novel, Dreams die young, was published in 2007. Recently his second novel, Prisoners of Hate, has been published. Lakshmi Rajan caught up with C V Murali in an exclusive interview for GingerChai.com From engineering to writing, what made you...
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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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It’s a story that will make you feel delighted! Yeah! At the onset of the review only I must mention this. Three reasons to beg buy or borrow this book – 1) Most of us will connect to the story instantly. 2) It is simple & sweet, you will not be burdened with loads...
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Kiran Desai won the Man Booker Prize 2006 for her “Inheritance of loss” , which happens to be her second novel. Luckily , thanks to my memory ( lack of it , infact) I had totally forgot all through my reading that the book comes with a baggage of Booker price reputation . Surprisingly...
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‘ If God was a Banker ‘ becomes the first book  in my book review section of my blog. I used to be once a vociferous reader but somewhere down the lane I stopped running my imagination on the words I read from the pages of various authors , so I decided to restart...
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