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Category Archives: Books
2 States: The Story of My Marriage
Chetan Bhagat When Khanna & Iyer met Ek Duje ke Liye. Chetan Bhagat’s works have never been literary classics, relying more on a racy story, wit, and an interesting enough plot. Sadly, this one works only the first count. The … Continue reading
Butter Chicken in Ludhiana: Travels in Small Town India
Pankaj Mishra If one were to go by the title, Pankaj Mishra is hardly the person who can be trusted to write about the “national bird of khalistan”, after all he’s a complete vegetarian, but then this book is about … Continue reading
1984
George Orwell Winston Smith thinks it is 1984, but it could be 2050, for all you know, for all you know is controlled by Big Brother. For as the book constantly reminds us “He who controls the present, controls the … Continue reading
The Time Traveler’s Wife
Audrey Niffenegger It is easy to treat this book as a simple love story, with the added twist of time travel, but it goes much beyond that, and in that lies the magic. The love story of Henry DeTamble and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Life
Tagged Audrey Niffenegger, love story, Relationships, The Time Traveler's Wife, time travel
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Paperback Raita
William Rhode Joshua King’s father dies of a viagra overdose and in his will, states that his son would inherit a fortune if he wrote a bestseller. Josh is of course, busy bumming around in India, clueless about what to … Continue reading
Jet City Woman
Ankush Saikia The name of the book, inspired by the Queensryche song, would suggest a female protagonist. In a sense there is one, but the narrator is a young student from Shillong, who arrives in Delhi in the second half … Continue reading
First Proof 2: The Penguin Book of New Writing
The second edition of Penguin’s annual anthology, this one has poetry in addition to fiction and non-fiction. There are 11 works of non fiction, though some of them, I thought, would have made more sense in the fiction set!! My … Continue reading
Tin Fish
Sudeep Chakravarti Set in the 1970s in a boarding school in Rajasthan, ‘Tin Fish’ is the story of four friends and their ‘wonder years’. ‘Tin Fish’, named after the canned fish that was a regular in the narrator’s tuck box, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Yesterday
Tagged boarding school, Get Lost on the Ganga and All That, Mayo, Sudeep Chakravarti, Tin Fish
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From the corner of his eye
Dean Koontz That Dean Koontz is an amazing writer of supernatural stories is a known fact. What makes this book special is the mix of several themes that work in superb harmony – a psychotic killer, quantum physics and faith. … Continue reading
Kerala Kerala, Quite Contrary
This is an anthology of 26 works, edited by Shinie Antony, who also contributes a few as author, interviewer and chronicler. The title, IMHO, is a bit misleading since the works themselves, while touching upon various aspects of life in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Nair, Building Brand Kerala, D Vijayamohan, Fort Lines, Happy, Hormis Tharakan, Kerala, Kerala Kerala Quite Contrary, Nimz Dean, No Sex please we have cable, Odd Morning, Omana, Orhan Pamuk Nair and I, S S Lal, Shashi Tharoor, Shinie Antony, Shreekumar Varma, Sitrep Seventies, Suresh Menon, Susan Visvanathan, The Argumentative Malayali, The Gift, The Strange Sisters of Mannarkad, William Dalrymple
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