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This is an Interview of Chetan Bhagat published at postnoon.com. Refer this link.
A sensitive guy with a great sense of humour, Ketan Bhagat is almost ready to launch his first novel — Complete/Convenient. Postnoon chats with the nervous wreck to find out more.
Competition among siblings is quite the norm—we practically grow up competing with our elder and, in-their-imagination, wiser brothers and sisters. However, competition at school level or even college might not be as tricky as one on a professional level.
Ketan Bhagat, who’s the younger brother of…

Here are some suggestions to write a comprehensive book review. I thought I knew how to write book reviews.. until I read someone else’s :p ! So I decided to make up a guide to refer back to before I start writing each review. I’ve jotted it down in the form of questions so that its easy to check back if there is some aspect missed in the review. I sometimes even make notes while I read, but that’s sure stretching it a bit unless you want to go pro…

Title:Urban Shots:Crossroads
Editor:Ahmed Faiyaz
Publisher:Grey Oak/Westland
Price:INR 199
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At a time when the market is cluttered with innumerable similarly plotted,un- inspiring works by debutant writers,Crossroads(the second in the Urban Shots series from Grey Oak/Westland India)comes like a breath of fresh air.An anthology which explores the conflict,chaos and the confusion in the lives of interesting and colourful characters in Urban India,Crossroads penned by 26 young authors and edited by the best selling author Ahmed Faiyaz is definitely a must read for all those who have a penchant for good short…

 Title: I never thought I could fall in Love
 Author: Chanchaldeep Singh Sandhu Publisher:Penguin(India)
 Price: INR 99
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                  I picked up ChanchaldeepSingh Sandhu’s ‘I never thought I could fall in Love’ published byPenguin(India) expecting it to be a fun,breezy read.The front cover lookedsomewhat attractive(yes,I do have a fetish for lean,waxed female legs)and awitty desi campus novel was what I was looking for after a long,tiring day ofwork.A good 140 minutes and 156 odd pages later, I realized what I had laidhands on was…

Book Title: TheNew Collected Short Stories
Author:Jeffrey ArcherPublisher: PanBooks, Macmillan Publishers Ltd.Rating: * ** */5
Ifyou are an avid reader, you know you go through some phases in life when youjust do not have the time or patience to sit through an entire novel or anyelaborate piece of writing. When I was right in the eye of such a period, aprotracted flight journey prompted an emergency visit to the airport bookstore. And, I ended up getting treated to a collection of short stories soindulgingly penned that I had to force…

Title : This Mobius Strip Ifs
Author : Mathias B. Freese
Publisher : Wheatmark
ISBN : 978-1-60494-723-6
As I received this book, the title intrigued me to a great extent. I had no clue what the term ‘Mobius Strip’ means so obviously searched the web to find out about the same. A Mobius Strip is actually a twisted ribbon or is described as a surface with only one side. It is the basis of some scientific models and is used as a metaphor by mathematicians and physicists. It illustrates how,…

Book Review : The Maze Runner by James Dashner
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Thomas wakes up in a box knowing nothing more than his first name. When the box opens he meets the Gladers, a bunch of boys living on their own in an inexplicable world. The Gladers are given deliveries of food and a new person once a month. The Maze surrounding the Glade is closed off at night to protect the kids from the Grievers, monstrosities of flesh and machine. Thomas is riddled with questions, but he knows he was…

Book Review : Midnight in Austenland by Shannon Hale
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Charlotte Kinder is nice. She always has been nice, it’s just what she does. Charlotte’s husband has not been so nice, having had an affair and left his wife and children. After several blind dates Charlotte decides it is time to get away, not just from the country, but to a different time. She comes to Pembrook Park playing the part of Mrs. Charlotte Cordial. Mr. Mallery is brooding, Mr. Grey is fun-loving, Colonel Andrews is theatrical, Miss Gardenside…

Book Review : The Help by Kathryn Stockett
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It is 1962 and Aibileen is a black maid, and raising her seventeenth white child. She has loved everyone of the children she has raised. She is trying to find her way through mourning for the loss of her son due to a senseless accident at his job. At times it seems it is only her own dignity that can keep her going through her trials.
Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan has graduated from Ole Miss and returns home with dreams of…

Book Review : The Host by Stephenie Meyers
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Earth has been taken over by aliens, and it all happened before the humans could do anything to stop it. The aliens, known as Souls, have inserted themselves into humans’ brains suppressing the consciousness of the former occupant of the body. Wanderer has been given the body of a wild human as her host to discover the location of other renegade humans. However, there is an unexpected problem, Melanie refuses to relinqish her mind to Wanderer. In a test of…