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Legacy by Sudha Menon – Book Review
Letters, once again, this time some well known or as the author says eminent parents write letters to their daughters. Letters to the daughter...
Dozakhnama by Rabisankar Bal, Translated by Arunava Sinha
Dozakhnama, Conversations in Hell, is one of the best contemporary works I have read recently. On the face of it is a conversation between...
Indianomix by Vivek Dehejia, Rupa Subramanya
I read this book Indianomix because of all the media hype that I saw about this book. Literally, everyone was going gaga over how...
Our Moon has Blood Clots by Rahul Pandita
This may be one of the most emotional reviews I have written so far. The book Our Moon has Blood Clots is a first-person account...
Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie – Book Review
Joseph Anton is the assumed name that Salman Rushdie took to conceal his identity during the time he was facing the Fatwa from Muslim...
The Average Indian Male by Cyrus Broacha
If I have to do a one-line review of this book, it would say ‘Someone trying too hard to be funny and losing every...
India A Sacred Geography by Diana L Eck
Long time back I had read a book by Osho that spoke about India being a sacred space. And not a country defined by...
Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
The first thing that I loved about this book Maps for Lost Lovers was its soothing cover. In many soft colors depicting the butterflies,...
Aerogrammes by Tania James – Book Review
Aerogrammes is a collection of nine short stories by an author whose hallmark seems to tenderness.
Most of the stories are about Malayalees living in...
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti by Mohammed Hanif
Nearly every other review of this book Our Lady of Alice Bhatti compares this book with the first book of the author ‘A Case...