Lisa Ray: A memoir of hope

Lisa Ray: A memoir of hope

Lisa Ray’s memoir Close to the Bone reads like a sumptuous literary work. It is an important story about isolation rooted in the lack of self worth, about the journey into the heart of darkness, death, bruising relationships and recovery. She is unfailingly kind to the people she writes about and brutally honest about her […]

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365 Days Of Thirst

365 Days Of Thirst

  A prospect with promise. A gleam of hope for a better future. And then the shattering reality. This is not the story of just one man, but many like him who left their homelands to find hidden treasures in golden desert fill of mirages.  Nikhil Ramteke’s debut novel ‘The 365 Days’ recounts a year of […]

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Book review- The Shock Doctrine

Book review- The Shock Doctrine

Certain books outlive their prime years not only due to their authors’ brilliance (which in this case was never in doubt), but also due to the core issues they analyze and address. The Shock Doctrine, currently in its 10th year of publication since its release in September 2007, falls in that category. Although yet to […]

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Book Review: The Golden Legend

Book Review: The Golden Legend

The master story-teller is back, weaving the usual magic with his words, writing a familiar yet brand-new tale of love in the times of bigotry and xenophobia.“ I wake up every day approaching life’s problems through fiction,“ says Nadeem Aslam.  Which explains the prose that soars even as it touches upon, examines, parses all the conflict life […]

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Feminine Grace Under Fire

Feminine Grace Under Fire

    Lakshmi Kannan’s debut novel in English charts the life of two remarkable women, Kalyani, a child bride, and Vishalakshi, a young widow in pre-Independence Madras. Both the women display admirable grace under pressure and at some point, the story becomes a celebration of woman power. Kannan deftly highlights the various issues women had to face […]

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Postcards To Kalam

Postcards To Kalam

On July 27, 2015, the entire nation was shocked by the sudden demise of the revered Dr. Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam. ‘Dear Kalam Sir’ is a tribute to him, based on a concept that LetterFarms,  a Kochi-based NGO hit upon. They ideated an art project, inviting people to write postcards expressing their sentiments about the […]

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The Return of Magic

The Return of Magic

  As the breathless blurbs go: he’s back! After 19 years! And so are Ron and Hermione! And Hagrid, Snape, Cedric Diggory and Dumbledore, (don’t ask), Moaning Myrtle and oh, quite a few of the Hogwarts lot we have come to know and like. It’s a new adventure, it contains all the requisite dangers, and never mind that […]

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No Second Thoughts

No Second Thoughts

  Second Lives is written by Anish Sarkar who debuted with Benaami, a historical thriller in the year 2010. The title aptly echoes the importance of life that most of us take for granted until it slips out of our hands in a moment. What comes to me after reading the book is a quote […]

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