Tag Archives: Contemporary Indian Authors

Author: Arun Sabtharishi

Publisher: Mahaveer Publishers
A guy sees a girl, falls in love… woos and wins her love. They both experience the ecstasy of love that develops between them and both realise the purport of love. They discover that love is blind, literally blind against anything in the world. The guy makes a mistake; he seeks forgiveness from the girl. The girl too commits a mistake. Again the guy seeks apologies from her. Does the girl forgive the guy modestly for the mistake SHE has made? Beyond just hormone…

Author:        Aravind Adiga
Price:           INR 699/- (Avlbl for 419/- @ Flipkart)
Publisher:    Fourth Estate (Harper Collins)
Format:        Royal Hardback

Set in Mumbai Last Man in Tower is the story of the residents of Vishram Tower in Vakola. It is supposed to be the oldest building in the area and is referred to as “the pukka one”. The residents are a strange mix of an old couple, a real estate agent, a cyber café owner, few retired couples, a family with a son suffering from Downs’s syndrome et al. They have always…

Author: Kulpreet Yadav

Publisher: Cedar Books

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When Harry decides to move away from his wife Kareena, to faraway Port Blair, he is hoping the distance would blur the differences the two have acquired after marriage. But it is not to be. Gloomy, tired and already a pessimist, he is boating in a bay close to his father’s house, when a catastrophe strikes – a tsunami. In the face of a sure death, Harry realises how shallow his expectations from the marriage have been. He wakes…

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…

Title:        Bombay Duck is a fish
Author:    Kanika Dhillon
Price:       Rs. 195/- (Available @ Rs. 146 @ Flipkart)
Publisher: Westland

Isn’t the title quite fishy? It was the ugliness of the book cover which pulled me in & the blurb which had me hooked to it.

Bombay duck is a fish is the story of Neki Brar, a small town girl who chucks her cushy job in an MNC even before joining it. She has her eyes set on Bollywood & she moves to Mumbai to chase her dream of…

Title:           Siya Seth Decides to Die
Author:     Sneha Mehta  
Price:        Rs. 100/-
Publisher:  Diamond Books

The book begins with these ominous lines
I, Siya Seth, committed suicide.

The line kind of sets the tone of the book. Siya (in her early teens) speaks to us after her death and unravels the mystery surrounding her.
Born & brought up in a rich & affluent family, Siya has everything in life that a kid could ask for & sometimes more than that. What she…

Author: Upneet Grover
Publisher: Cedar Books

Vineet was an average engineer at an IT firm. His office sucked the life out of him making him hate every moment he spent there. Cricket was his passion, a passion which he never had the guts to pursue until fate bestowed upon him an opportunity which would change his life forever. Shrugging off a sparkling career – as a management consultant – that lay ahead, this rubber ball stroking bloke embarks upon the most mercurial excursion to fulfill his dream of donning the…

Author: Suresh Taneja
Publisher: Frog Books

It was the most unusual vacation for Vikram, Yuvika, Manisha and Akshay – the G4, as they called themselves. In the first few days of the vacations, they experienced some shocking incidents of declining moral values and corruption. These completely shook them up when they understood the implications. They dreaded the thought of being labelled as citizens of a corrupt country. G4 found this deplorable and decided to plunge into action. They had two weeks of vacation, which they productively used to start an…

I remember a few bloggers reviewing Manju Kapur’s books positively and had wanted to pick something up by her for the longest time. My library had a couple of books by her and for some strange reason I was attracted to this book.Guess it had something to do with the fact that I was intrigued by the storyline- about a relationship an older woman has with a younger one and wanted to see how the subject’s been handled by an Indian writer.

Astha is a middle class woman ,who lives…

Title:       The Lotus Queen
Author:    Rikin Khamar
Price:       195/- (Available at Rs. 146 @ Flipkart)
Publisher: Rupa & Co.

Set in Chittor OF 1303 AD, The Lotus Queen is the story of Rani Padmini. Married to Rawal of Chittor, Padmini is considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world. Known across borders for her beauty there were fables associated with her.

Pulled in by the talks of her beauty, Ala’uddin Khijli the then ruler of Delhi sends a proposal to the King of Chittor. “…..all the precious stones he…