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This book is a collection of short stories that deal with the trials and tribulations faced by people of this century. It deals with the lifestyle and ideals that the modern Indians choose to live by. The focus is mostly on the relationships that are thriving or breaking up around us as a result of these choices. Nine short stories dealing with different relationships with few characters interconnecting each other.
First things first and for me characters always take the center stage as it is their life and their…

Title: Wise And Otherwise: A Salute To Life
Author: Sudha Murthy
Publisher: Penguin
Genre: Life stories
Price-199
Madhu’s stars: 3.5/5
Wise and Otherwise was a book which i picked up looking at its title and then when i came to know it’s by Sudha Murthy, my interest in it deepened. Though i have not met her in personal life, when i read about her work and i developed a sort of respect towards her.
Wise and Otherwise is a collection of 50 really short stories in which Sudha Mam has…

Author: Salil Desai
Publisher: Gyaana Books

Senior Inspector Saralkar has just returned to his desk after attending a Secrets of living course for police officers in Pune. It clearly did not offer him peace. He is now eagerly waiting to sink his teeth into a new case. A body has been found in the back seat of a car in the tow yard of the Chaturshringi police station in Pune. To PSI Motkar is seems to be a straightforward case of suicide, but the senior inspector is not convinced. He…

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,…

Author: Rajiv Kumar

Publisher: Frog Books

‘Navarasa by Lotus’ tells interlinked stories of a fading movie star; a youth accidentally taking form of a masked vigilante; a mosquito determined to fight human domination; an unmarried couple on the verge of break up; a woman who is terrified of her dream; a school kid struggling to vent his anger; Fate of our society post 2012; Rajiv’s addictions; and Anand’s redemption… The result is a collection of nine stories of different genres, each being a tribute to the rasa: humour, love, disgust,…

Author: Priya Kumar
Publisher: Embassy BooksRating: 3.5/5
A job cannot be mistaken for one’s life purpose. A purpose is something you would do even if you didn’t get paid for it. A job is a necessity. A purpose is your own drive for contribution. A job is something you do, even if you do not want to do it. A Purpose is something which you do because you want to do it.
Above lines from Priya Kumar’s ‘The Perfect World’ encapsulates briefly how one should view job and purpose of…

The other day I was reading Ruskin Bond’s “Notes From A Small Room” (a collection of his writings, taken from his diary and notebooks, up till a few years ago) and came across the name of one of his shorter pieces titled, “Catch a Moonbeam” – that has not been published before. Though I haven’t yet finished reading the book, yet needless to say that I enjoy his writings immensely. He is one of my all time favourite authors.

In case you are wondering why I brought in Ruskin Bond…

Author: Puneet Gupta

Publisher: Rupa & Co

The Suicide Banker is the story of a young banker whose employers believe in the motto of turning conventional wisdom upside down. Against the backdrop of financial boom and subsequent meltdown during the first decade of this century. Sumit becomes an unfortunate witness, active participant and ill-fated victim in the affairs of Ind-Credit Bank. Over the course of life-altering events, the once blue-eyed boy is slowly but surely sucked into the dark abyss of financial world his dreams collapsing one by one in…

Resident Dormitus by Vikas Rathi portrays a tale concerning existentialism as well as the changing psychological landscape of young professionals. Covering the life and confusions of a compelling small town guy whose job takes him to Singapore and Malaysia, this book explores the feelings of its young protagonist Achet.
The novel follows his life through a sequence of ostensibly incoherent events where he flirts with morality and death culminating into a startling insight where he commits a murder, but not because of wrath or retribution. Although in the company of…