When I picked up Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk about When I Talk about Running, I was excited about reading it. And the book didn’t disappoint me. Well, not entirely.
What I Talk about When I Talk about Running is a ...Read More
Rajat Chaudhuri's Hotel Calcutta has just been published (Niyogi Books, 2013). He lives in Kolkata, and besides his novels, he has also written short stories, essays and book reviews. The few questions I asked Rajat below are really not enough ...Read More
I loved The Casual Vacancy. What a decimation of British smalltown culture, with their petty concerns, their sad sex lives and their young and aimless. Rowling says it all 'authentically', never mind whose point of view she is working from. ...Read More
The first time I read Rebecca I fell in love with the book. The haunting, sometimes thrilling, often heart wrenching novel by Daphne Du Maurier made me an instant fan of the author and I have ever since recommended the ...Read More
The world is divided between them and us. Between the disempowered and the powerful. Between survivors. And oppressors. And what better way to tell a story about dispossession, migration, transition and struggle than to assume not just one voice but ...Read More
There's nothing new you might say about chefs writing a book. Of all writers who don't actually have to perforce write for a living, chefs arguably are the most prolific. You might say they have a subject ready at hand ...Read More
In Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi's The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay, the protagonist Karan is an outsider who wants to make Bombay his home. How he sees Bombay through his camera lens is what forms the primary plot of the story. The narrative weaves together ...Read More
Let me start off by stating that it is through JP Das’ writings and narrations I have known and grasped the different aspects of Orissa’s history, traditions and its people. His writings remain focussed on the ground realities .And he is ...Read More
The three of them are the true loves of my life and they don’t figure in any order of preference. Each one of them has played an equally important part in my growth as a writer and a human being. ...Read More
I read Fifty Shades of Grey yesterday. According to wiki (and because I cannot be bothered to think of new ways to say the same things): Fifty Shades of Grey is a 2011 erotic novel by British author E. L. ...Read More
It is perhaps the first novel about the intriguing world of art by an insider, one who knows the artists and the art market. Published by Hachette India, Artist, Undone is the debut novel by V. Sanjay Kumar - ...Read More
A sword lodged in stone. That is how Francisco Goldman describes a daughter's love for her missing father in his visceral tribute to his late wife Aura Estrada in his book Say Her Name which is partly a grief diary of ...Read More
