Archive | July, 2011

“I feel like a dinosaur in this world sometimes. ” smiled the bespectacled Amitav Ghosh when asked “how does he feel when the world has become virtual”
The room was filled with people from different strata and arenas of life. Anthropologists, engineers, Historians, every one wanted to have a glimpse of the author. He quenched their inquisitive minds, one by one.
Amitav urged people with a proclivity towards writing to delve into subjects they are attracted towards.
“I was amazed at the response of the people with the release of…

Paperback: 237 pages
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Frogbooks an imprint of Leadstart Publishing , India 2010
Source: Book provided by the author in exchange for an honest and unbiased review.
Review Quote: ‘The humour is very pleasant, emotions are well scripted & the language is simple.’ A reader on http://www.simplybooks.in/book-review-what-goes-around-comes-938
My Opinion: I doubt I would have chosen to read this if left to my own devices and I am sorry to say it was a disappointment.

I just do not think this is going to appeal to the European reader.…

Snyopsis:

Rose Leonard is on the run from her life.

Taking refuge in a remote island community, she cocoons herself in work, silence and solitude in a house by the sea. But she is haunted by her past, by memories and desires she’d hoped were long dead. Rose must decide whether she has in fact chosen a new life or just a different kind of death. Life and love are offered by new friends, her lonely daughter, and most of all Calum, a fragile younger man who has his own…

Author: Rashmi Kumar
Publisher: Rupa & Co.

It is seen through the eye of a bubbly 28-year-old journalist – Radhika Kanetkar – right from the time she took her first step into the newsroom, got her first story and made bloopers, to how she handled pressures to meet deadlines. In the midst of all this, she experiences a journey of triumph, anguish, jealousy and of course, finds her true love.

I know a few journalists in Delhi, but the common thread among their personalities has always been ardent passion towards…

Rajeev Nanda, author of Conversations, has been working in thehi-tech industry since 1985. He started his career as a software engineer inIndia and has worked across many roles and organizations both in India and US.After spending more than 10 years in the US he relocated to Bangalore to helpIntel setup their IT group in India. His literary debut is a compilation ofdiscussions between ordinary individuals about risks taken and prices paid.Each story follows a theme relevant to anyone who has experienced long life ordeath, dreams or futility, love or broken…

Do you believe in yourself? Do you feel that you have the power to create? Then this one is for you. After a long time, a book touched me as much as this 67-page book did. Every word is a gem. And every word reflecting what I usually think or propagate i.e., YOU are the most important person. Live not to please others but yourself. You can adjust with relationships but when your principles which are logical come in to the picture, stand like a rock. Disconnect. Delve into yourself.…

Title : Reality Bites
Author : Anurag Anand
Publisher : Srishti

The story begins with Atul’s first day in the Delhi Engineering College (DCE) and soon the readers are taken two years back to his first hostel experience when he had moved from a small, secured and confined world of a small home in Hissar to a much bigger world of Delhi High School Hostel. The objective behind this transition was the lofty aim of his father that Atul should be able to secure a seat in a prestigious engineering…

The Hindi Bindi Club comprises of Indian women, who migrated from India in early post Independence days to settle down in the United States of America. They are the women who despite being so far away from their motherland have tried to maintained their identity in the foreign country (now their home) by their language(Hindi) and attire(Bindi). They have tried their best to imbibe the traditional values, customs in their children who are born there and are brought up as 2nd generation Indian-American. But, have they succeded?

The Hindi Bindi Club tells the story…

Before starting I should make it clear that I love Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni for writing “The Palace of Illusions”. That was one of the books which initiated me into Indian Mythology apart from Manusmirithi and Arthasasthra, of course. The reason I picked this book in-spite of a dodgy reading blurb was that i expected some sort of same experience.

The back cover blurb reads:In a dingy shack in the less-than-desirable Indian neighbourhood he calls home, twelve-year-old Anand is entrusted with a conch shell that possesses mystical powers. His task is to return the…

Paperback: 374 pages
Genre : Fiction
Publisher: This edition Fourth Estate an impression of Harper Collins 2009. Originally published 2000 by Flamingo.
Source: Another Bookcrosser
First Sentence : ‘She walked across the sand carrying a shoe in either hand, drawn forward as much by the great blue moon up ahead as by the sound of the breaking waves.’
Review Quote :’A painfully acute but never reproachful examination of a past that will not vanish’ Daily Telegraph.
My Opinion: An author I enjoy and will try to read all his books…