Archive | February, 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Durant
For every Englishman who came to India with original thought, there were 10 who were incapable of original thought, and 100 who were capable of only original evil; Satyagrah was known as passive resistance: nonsense – there was nothing passive about it – Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor has covered the ground with these 2 brutally frank lines that indict the british; Jaswant Singh far more detailed, as he examined in scholarly detail the divide and rule policy and the eyewash of governance; Versaikar detailed the 1857 reprisals in Jhansi…

Title : Into The Wild
Author : Jon KraKauer
Publisher : Macmillan and Co
Sometimes after finishing a particular book, I find myself at loss of words to write its review. And for such books it takes a long time to compose the review. Somehow ‘Into the Wild’ belongs to that category. Its been almost two months since I finished reading this book and had jotted down the points that I wanted to include in the review but was not able to actually write it down. Christopher McCandless and his…

Emma Montgomery hasn’t been sleeping well. She has gruesome nightmares, and when she wakes up, she isn’t where she was when she fell asleep. And she’s not the only one. Many of the students at Saint Opportuna High are having nightmares and sleepwalking too. When teenagers start turning up dead, Emma and her friends start to wonder if they might have had anything to do with the deaths. They need to stick together to keep themselves awake…and to figure out what’s causing them to kill in their sleep. (From Amazon.ca)This…

 
“One must praise the lone woman, our great Rani, who roamed the fort and defended the city constantly for eleven days while the British bombarded us…”
History… the word conjures up images of drab dates, reams upon reams of uninteresting narrative etc. Only those who are interested in the subject will find it appealing. Thus it was that I, a history buff, spotted this lovely title on the book shelf. It seemed quite interesting from the title, and the aficionado in me was intrigued. I turned a few pages…

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Doug Lee is undead quite by accident—attacked by a desperate vampire, he finds himself cursed with being fat and fifteen forever. When he has no luck finding some goth chick with a vampire fetish, he resorts to sucking the blood of cows under cover of the night. But it’s just not the same. Then he meets the new Indian exchange student and falls for her—hard. Yeah, he wants to bite her, but he also wants to prove himself to her. But like the laws of life, love, and high…

“If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason,the possibility of life is destroyed.”

Before starting the review of the book i would like to tell the readers that there are few books which must be read in a lifetime and this book will probably be on top of the list.I had seen this book mentioned in,”Into the wild” and ever since was on my reading list.Then while reading JS and times of my life by Jug Suraya there is chapter where he mentions two books which everyone…

Paperback: 417 pages
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Hodder 2006
Source: Unknown on my bookshelves since 2006.
First Sentence : ‘I was six years old the first time I disappeared.’
Review Quote : ‘Gripping read …never slips into straightforwardly familiar territory and successfully avoids being overly sentimental’ Guardian
My Opinion: I was not impressed. As I have more titles by Jodi Picoult on my TBR shelves than by any other author I decided it was time I read another one of her books as I have not done so for a couple…

The minute you turn 25, everyone around you just screams and jumps at you and starts to poke at you and ask you the same question over and over again – “When are you getting married? When are you getting married?” Oh come on. It can’t be that you don’t have a girlfriend. Why don’t you tell us about her and we can start arranging the wedding.
Conversations like these should not come as surprise in a man’s life prior to their marriage from friends, relatives or people from the…

Author: Dhiraj Kumar

Publisher: Wordizen Books

Rating: 3/5

The Asocial Networking by Dhiraj Kumar is nothing but a BIG over-reaction on the impact of social networking (specifically Facebook) on our lives. It does make some pertinent points about the facade people put by showing an alternate ‘online’ life to others but goes overboard in the analysis and infuses a spirit of outlandishness that in the end harms the book far more you can think off.

It is interesting and ironical to see ourselves socializing with the help of gadgets when…

Publisher: Tranquebar Press

Author: Navneet Jagaanathan

In the fictional suburb of Bandargaon, tucked away in Bombay, there’s never a quit moment. Dreams erupt, hopes shatter, in the heaving Sunrise Apartments, by a rickety tea-cart-Jinias Chai Hause, inside a seedy Jaanam Desi, and by the dilapidated Purana Qila. Chagan, the dashing hero, who shines like a film-star, spends hours wooing a beauteous Shalini. Shalini, ever fickle, oscillates between him and a pining Vinayak. Vinayak, in turn, tries desperately to win the favour of Shalini’s mother, Lakshmibai. Elsewhere, the local politician, Sajjanpur,…