When a Lawyer Falls in Love – this interestingly titled book is the debut offering of Amrita Suresh, who had decided she wanted to be a novelist while she was still a bespectacled twelve-year-old, and finally managed to pen this one as a bespectacled twenty-two-year-old. So all credit must go to those spectacles, I presume.
It makes for a nice breezy read … and nowhere does it in any way suggest that a lawyer (including one in the making) should not succumb to the matters of the heart. So…
Author: Nishant Kaushik
Publisher: Rupa & Co
Meet Nakul Kapoor, a 20-something corporate executive, who gives you a hilarious account of how he struggles through a cobweb comprising an unacknowledged position at work that leaves him with nothing but the feeling of being an objectified resource, a stupid boss who thinks he is a smart Alec, a gorgeous girlfriend who can’t think below D&G and Gucci when it comes to shopping with his credit card, and an extra pious room-mate who thinks that watching sleazy films and lusting after material…
Title: Jerusalem: The BiographyAuthor: Simon Sebag MontefiorePublisher: Weidenfeld And Nicholson, Orion Books, Hachette Book GroupISBN: 978-0297866923Genre: Non-FictionPages: 696Source: PublisherRating: 5/5
Jerusalem: The Biography is one of the great reads of the year for me and you should not miss out on reading this one. I have always loved reading anything by Simon Sebag Montefiore. He writes with honesty and passion that is hard to miss. Whether it is about Stalin as a boy and adolescent to Monsters and Heroes, Montefiore does a remarkable job of it.
Jerusalem is a true…
Title: The Artist of Disappearance Author: Anita DesaiPublisher: Houghton Mifflin HarcourtISBN: 978-0-547-57745-6Genre: Fiction, Novellas, Literary FictionPages: 156Source: PublisherRating: 5/5
When Anita Desai writes, she creates magic. I have always held on to this belief and moreover also thought that she is one of the under-rated writers in her own country. She writes sparingly and the words sparkle long after the book is published. My tryst with Anita Desai took place when I was barely seventeen. I remember watching the movie In Custody – a Merchant-Ivory production and as the credits…
Publisher: Tranquebar PressAuthor: Nabaun BhattacharyaTranslator: Arunava Sinha
Harbart Sarkar, sole proprietor of a business that brings messages from the dead to their near and dear ones left behind on earth, is found dead in his room after a night of drinking with local young men. He has killed himself. Why? Was it a threat to his business which brought him money, respect, a standing in the family, more clients and fame? Or was it a different ghost from his shadow life, where he was constantly haunted by his own unfulfilled…
Title: Death in Mumbai Author: Meenal Baghel Publisher: Random House India ISBN: 978-8184000658Genre: Non-Fiction Pages: 248Source: Publisher Rating: 4/5
Death in Mumbai by Meenal Baghel is a gripping account of the infamous killing of Neeraj Grover by an aspiring actress Maria Susairaj and her naval boyfriend Emile Jerome. Everyone knows the story and how the killing took place. Everyone knows what happened. Why the need then to chronicle this in a book? That is because no one is aware of how it started and also because one must not forget…
Title:- I’m not twenty four…I’ve been nineteen for five years…
Author:- Sachin Garg
Published by:- Grapevine India Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
Year of Publication:- 2011
Number of Pages:- 223
Genre:- Fiction, Light reading.
Some looking up tells you that the author Sachin Garg has centered the entire plot around a female protagonist very convincingly. However ‘Soumya’s story in her own voice’ sounds meaningful only a tad bit, once you read through the book. A quintessential Delhi girl lands up in a steel plant, gets posted to a remote village in Karnataka, unsure of how to deal with…
My Grandfather’S Stick [Tamil: Yenn Thathavin Oonrukole]
Children have such a vivid imagination that they leave us stumped most times. Show them a pencil and they will show you atleast 5 different uses to it besides writing on a paper. Such is their power of imagination. In this book “My Grandfather’s stick”[published by Tulika], the author takes us on a journey where the little girl makes use of the stick for things beyond helping a person walk.
One moment, she transforms into a horse rider, flying off into air on…
This time, it took a long time to complete a book. 1 hour ago, I completed Faraaz Kazi’s “Truly, Madly, Deepy – Memoirs of a Heart’s First Love!”. Let me talk about the author first- Faraaz Kazi is currently pursuing his post-graduate studies in management in Mumbai. He is a certified soft-skills trainer and runs his own academy in the same field. He completed his creative writing from XIC and possesses a diploma in freelance journalism from the British Institutes. He is fondly referred to as ‘The Young Marketer’ and…
Behind closed doors
Domestic Violence in India
Edited by Rinki Bhattacharya
Sage Publications
Reviewed by sandhya
This is a collection of narratives by 17 women who are survivors of domestic violence, and who have been courageously come out with their stories, not only in print, but also in the documentary film Char Diwari. Both have been made by Rinki Bhattacharya, herself a domestic violence survivor. The heartrending narratives bring home to us how widespread the problem is, and how no privilege can save a woman from a violent situation.…
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