BOOK REVIEW

Ruskin Bond is the most addictive and entertaining writer in modern Indian literature. The author of over a hundred novels and short-story collections, his fiction is especially celebrated for the unforgettable misfits, Dreamers, small-time con artists, rapscallions, thieves and drifters who populate it. For the first time ever, a gallery of rascals brings together the […]

:About the Book: What the world knows about Sanjay duty is only half-truths. best-selling author, film producer and renowned journalist Ram Kamal Mukherjee unravels the enigma and stigma surrounding Sanju Baba. There can be no last word on Sanjay Dutt. Ever. Even as he walks a free man after more than three decades of prison […]

Introduction  ISBN: 978-81-923280-7-2 Category: Business Publishers: Aleph Price: Rs. 695/-  ( I got this book from Blog Adda for review) As you might have guessed by now I am a voracious reader and I literally gobble up books be it fiction, nonfiction, self help or business. I fell in love with Devdutt Pattanaik’s writing when I read his 99 thoughts on Ganesha. His grip […]

Introduction We follow a lot of traditions and rituals when we pray to God but how many of us really know the meaning and significance behind them? A difficult question I suppose. Our parents and grandparents did a wonderful job of carrying on the family tradition from one generation to another but somewhere in the […]

Introduction ISBN:978-9353332686 Genre: Fiction / Mythology Publishers: Rupa Publications Price: Rs. 295/- (I got the book for review from the publisher) Behind the Book Believed to be the liquid manifestation of Shakti and the nurturer of the three worlds with her life-sustaining waters, Goddess Ganga is the epitome of beauty and purity, famous for her indomitable […]

Introduction ISBN: 9780143441199 Genre: Fiction/ Historical Fiction Publishers: Penguin Random House Price: Rs. 299/-  ( I got the book for review from the author) Behind the Book Prithviraj Chauhan was destiny’s chosen one, singled out for glory and greatness. During the course of an extraordinary life, he transcended the limits imposed on mortals and achieved Godlike luster. The conquering […]

Introduction ISBN #978-0-670-08684-9 Category: Fiction Publishers : Penguin India Price : Rs. 399/- Indian Fiction happens to be my all time favourite reads always for various reasons. One easy to connect, understand and most importantly feel the characters with the story. I accidently happened to read a review of this book in The Times of India and fell in […]

Introduction ISBN: 978-1509874262 Genre: Fiction  Publishers: Pan Macmillan India Price: Rs. 599/-  ( I got the book for review from the publisher) Behind the Book Amos Decker, David Baldacci’s unique special agent with the gift of a remarkable memory, returns in The Fallen. Small towns which have seen better times are not unusual. But the mysterious events in Baronville, […]

Introduction ISBN: 9788129144515 Genre: Fiction / Mythology Publishers: Rupa Price: Rs.295/- (I got this book from the publisher for a review) Surpanakha, Ravan’s infamous sister—ugly and untamed, brutal and brazen. This is how she is commonly perceived. One whose nose was sliced off by an angry Lakshman and the one who started a war but was she really just perpetrator […]

Haunting and mysterious are the first two words that strike your mind as flip through the pages of The Japanese Wife, by Kunal Basu. This book has generated a lot of interested especially after Director Aparna Sen decided to make a movie of the same name based on it. The books consists 12 short stories which […]