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The blurb at the back of the book reads,
Frosted Glass comprises one story cycle consisting of fourteen stories and one poem cycle consisting of twenty-one poems.The stories, set in Kolkata, bring to the fore the darkness lurking in the human psyche and bare the baser instincts. The stories, compactly written and marked by insightful dialogues that raise contemporary issues like man-woman relationships and its strains, morals and ethics, environmental degradation, class inequality, rapid and mass-scale unmindful urbanisation, are devoid of sentimentalization. The result is they remain focused and move…

A young Israeli student who has a fetish for Violent porn comes across a strange video on the Internet. His interest is piqued and forwards the video to his Friend. This inadvertently triggers a motion of events.

Troy King spends his days pushing paper for a government intelligence agency.  Loaded by his personal failures, he is full of life when he comes across the video and CIA’s interest in the video. He owes to get to the bottom of it.

Tech savvy David Arbuthnot moves from England to the US…

Someone said me everyone has a book inside them waiting to be written. When I asked him how should I get on with writing that book, he replied with a “Write your own life story. I am sure each one’s life is different from others”

A Splash of Love by Rajeev Ranjan  starts with the childhood of the protagonist Arunoday and the death of his dear friend. A communist strike and his family moves to Delhi where he finishes his education and tries to enroll himself in Indian Army. His friend’s…

Originally written by Subimal Misra in Bengali this has been translated to English by V. Ramaswamy. 
This book has been nominated for the Vodafone-Crossword Award for 2011 under Translation category!
Like any other book by Bengali authors, this book throws you away into a dark world of blood, gore, sex and everything sick you can possibly imagine. Misra’s characters are set in an underbelly society of borderline craziness and are enormously gruesome. If you can stomach a little murder, a little rape, a little dead body decaying over the road, a little…

Yes, you read it right That demmed elusive Pimpernel!!
“They seek him here,they seek him there,those Frenchies seek him everywhere.Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel.”
Many would have read this as a non detail work in Class 9. Ok at least if you followed the State board syllabus in Tamilnadu you would have. What Pride and Prejudice did to young women of the literary kind, The Scarlet Pimpernel did the same to the non-literary young folks. I had read Pride and Prejudice while in…

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…

A friend who is an ardent cat lover picked this book just because the cover design had a Cat or rather a Crat on it. Her tastes in books are eclectic. So this choice came as no surprise.
The blurb on the book cover reads,
Malaisea, the unhealthiest town in the whole of Zamonia, is home to Echo the Crat, a multitalented creature resembling a cat in appearance but capable of speaking any language under the sun, human or animal. When his mistress dies, Echo finds himself out on the…

Back cover blurb:
 A captivating saga about love, family, friendship, and faith – a tender love story of lifelong love between husband and wife, eternal family ties between father and son and inseparable true friendship between young friends that continues through the twilight years. Naveen BC’s debut novel is a gospel of faith in true human values. The moving story that spans generations will make you cry and laugh and rebuild your faith and trust in the human species that ancient and modern prophets of doom have often times condemned…

I read this after finishing a book by Sudha Murthy, which I didn’t like to be frank. So, was apprehensive to take up another Indian Lady authored book. Boy, was i floored?

Even though I don’t accept everything in this Fab book, Ladies Coupe, I still hold it close to my heart.  Here we have a single woman, Aki aka Akila aka Akilandeswari discovering herself or rather trying to discover. 45 year old Aki wakes up one morning and suddenly is flooded with the desire to find herself. On an impulse…

I don’t know if it is the ideal world, but Escape by Manjula Padmanabhan is set in a world or rather a country of Men. By Men, I mean men, only men, nobody else and not even a single soul of the other gender.

Let me digress a bit.

I don’t know how this is remotely possible. It beats the only thing on a guys mind – “women”… and progeny. Ok, agreed that the book is set in future and the process of cloning  is more than stabilized but still…

The…